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Erikson, Eskimos & Columbus : medieval European knowledge of America

Why did medieval Europeans seem to have such specific knowledge about a land they had not yet discovered? The author presents evidence that the Eskimos' provided the basis for medieval maps of the areas of America that no Europeans had reached

Print Book, English, 2002
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2002