Balder Ex-Libris

Authors : Ashe Geoffrey - Heyerdahl Thor - Ingstad Helge - Luce J. V. - Meggers Betty J. - Wallace Birgitta L.
Title : The Quest for America
Year : 1971

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Who discovered America ? Was Columbus the first to set eyes on the New World in 1492, or can credence be given to the sometimes unlikely tales and legends of Atlantis and divers other lands to the west which have been told around camp fires, in council chambers and in baronial halls from time immemorial ? This is the first comprehensive book to bring together the original researchers on the links, in literature, mythology, archaeology and history, between the Old World and the New. The book is divided into two parts : in the first, the legends of the Old World are studied and the technical possibilities of the voyages described in them are analysed in the light of archaeological and historical evidence. ...