The Ice-Shirt: Volume One of Seven Dreams: A Book of North

The Ice-Shirt: Volume One of Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes

The time is the tenth century A.D. The newcomers are a proud and bloody-minded people whose kings once changed themselves into wolves. The Norse have advanced as implacably as a glacier from Iceland to the wastes of Greenland ?and from there to the place they call ?Vinland the Good.? The natives are a bronze-skinned race who have not yet discovered iron and still see themselves as part of nature.
As William T. Vollmann tells the converging stories of these two peoples?and of the Norsewomen Freydis and Gudrid, whose venomous rivalry brings frost into paradise?he creates a tour-de-force of ?speculative history,? a vivid amalgam of Icelandic saga, Inuit creation myth, and contemporary travel writing that yields a new an utterly original vision of our continent and its past.
Country USA
Brand Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer Penguin Publishing Group
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber illustrations, maps
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 1993-08-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780140131963

Country	USA
Brand	Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer	Penguin Publishing Group
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	illustrations, maps
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	1993-08-01
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780140131963

The Ice-Shirt: Volume One of Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes