The Sea Road (Paperback, Main)

The focus of this unusual, atmospheric novel is the accidental discovery of America by the Vikings, centuries before the advent of Christopher Columbus. Scottish feminist academic Elphinstone writes from the viewpoint of Gudrid, an Icelandic woman for whom the ancient gods and the spirits of the dead are as real as the cruelties of nature and the hostility of wintry seas. Taking characters and events from Icelandic saga, Elphinstone creates a stark, ice-lit world of haunting beauty and strangeness as well as a story which involves the modern reader as immediately as any work of contemporary realism. (Kirkus UK)

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. Taking the accidental discovery of North America as its focal point, Gudrid's narrative describes a multi-layered voyage into the unknown, all recounted with astonishing immediacy and rich atmospheric detail.

General

Imprint:	Canongate Books Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 2001
First published:	August 2001
Authors:	Margaret Elphinstone
Dimensions:	198 x 130 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	244
Edition:	Main
ISBN-13:	978-1-84195-176-8
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Historical fiction
LSN:	1-84195-176-5
Barcode:	9781841951768

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