The locations of Vinland and the first European settlement are mysteries that have puzzled scholars, archaeologists, and historians for more than two centuries. From 1961 to 1968, Helge Ingstad and his wife Anne Stine Ingstad, both acclaimed Viking scholars, conducted seven expeditions at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland. The results of their ...
Available in English for the first time, "The Apache Indians" tells the story of Norwegian explorer Helge Ingstad's sojourn among the Apaches near the White Mountain Reservation in Arizona and his epic journey to locate the 'lost' group of their brethren in the Sierra Madres in the 1930s. Ingstad travelled to Canada where he lived as a trapper for ...
In 1949 Helge Ingstad flew into a very remote area of northern Alaska where the last surviving group of Nunamiut Eskimos, a highly mobile caribou hunting people, still resided. "Nunamiut: Among Alaska's Inland Eskimos" is Ingstad's richly detailed account of his nine-month stay among this small, 65-person community of hunters and gatherers. He ...
In the late 1920s, Helge Ingstad spent four years as a hunter and trapper in the Canadian Arctic. When he first arrived in the North, people in the river communities would bet on the arrival of the river boats - when he stopped at Fort Resolution on his way out, the bets were about planes. "The Land of Feast and Famine," originally published in ...
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