Viking navigation

Reference & Research Book News, August, 2008

Viking navigation.

Thirslund, Soren.

Viking Ship Museum Roskilde

2007

40 pages

$34.00

Hardcover

G525

Thirsland, who has written extensively on the subject or maritime navigation, offers this slim volume to address the question of how the Vikings navigated the North Atlantic to Greenland and North America without the benefit of a magnetic compass? The author uses artifacts that have been recently discovered to prove that the Vikings were able to fashion rudimentary yet fully-functioning navigation systems using only shadows, the sun and a piece of curved wood. Plenty of photographs of the artifacts are included. Of interest to both maritime historians and navigators. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co.

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