Maps, Myths, and Men: The Story of the Vinland Map.(Book review)
Historian, The, March, 2006 by Sather, Lee
Maps, Myths, and Men: The Story of the Vinland Map. By Kirsten Seaver. (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004. Pp. xxi, 480. $24.95.)
The historical record is studded with numerous records that have profoundly changed the ways in which we view our past or muddied Clio's waters when controversy develops regarding their authenticity. There is no better example of this than the current controversy regarding the authenticity of the Vinland Map. In this work, Kirsten Seaver provides a provocative but one-sided analysis of this document and its historical reliability.
The Vinland Map first surfaced in 1957 when it was acquired by a New Haven book dealer and eventually purchased in 1964 by Yale University. The map, apparently from the...
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