Description
| Product ID: | 9781841951768 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Sea Road |
| Authors: | Author: Margaret Elphinstone |
| Page Count: | 256 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 'Forget Richard Branson, the audacious female traveller Gudrid of Iceland is the original explorer's explorer ... Elphinstone has written a fine tribute to a woman whose tale is as warm and inviting as a hot spring on a clear winter day.' The Times A haunting, compelling historical novel, The Sea Road is a daring re-telling of the 11th-century Viking exploration of the North Atlantic from the viewpoint of one extraordinary woman. Gudrid lives at the remote edge of the known world, in a starkly beautiful landscape where the sea is the only connection to the shores beyond. It is a world where the old Norse gods are still invoked, even as Christianity gains favour, where the spirits of the dead roam the vast northern ice-fields, tormenting the living, and Viking explorers plunder foreign shores. |
| Imprint Name: | Canongate Books |
| Publisher Name: | Canongate Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2001-08-07 |
