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Alban Quest the Search for the Lost Trib - Farley Mowat


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Alban Quest the Search for the Lost Trib - Farley Mowat

 
Description: ISBN 0297842951 / Author: Farley Mowat / Genre: History

Newest Review: ... elsewhere in books by the likes of Ian Wilson and Thor Heyerdahl, here however author Farley Mowat is on a more specific ... more

 ... quest. The seeds for this quest began many years after being puzzled by the remains on that northern coast line when Mowat found himself on another northern coast viewing remains that were so similar they had to have some cultural connection with is earlier findings. This time he was in Scotland. The obvious question loomed large, was there a race of people now lost to our memory that left roots in both these places. With that the gauntlet is laid down and the whole raison d`etre of the book is summed up. The opening ...more

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Premium Review Alban Quest the Search for the Lost Trib - Farley Mowat: Chasing memories along the Atlantic shores (880 words)
by - written on 12/05/06 (Very useful, 78 readings)
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On the wind-blasted shore of Hudson Bay in Canada there stand some ancient ruins, ruins that, by their own admission, were not made by the indigenous Inuit people. Carbon dating techniques have revealed that the structures pre-date the Viking settlements of the region and as such pose a question mark as to who was actually active in here in a period that equates to the dark ages of Europe. We are now, thankfully, living in a time when many of the old notions of exploration and cultural contact are being toppled. We all know that Columbus was not the first person to explore the Americas, just the best remembered and now it seems that the route taken by Viking explorers ...  Read the complete review

 

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