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Curious Journeys eBook Series

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  • Frozen Frontiers

    How the Vikings Reached Iceland, Greenland, and America

    Series series Curious Journeys
    Long before Columbus crossed the Atlantic, Norse sailors had already pushed the boundaries of the known world.This is the story of how they did it — step by step, edge by edge, across some of the coldest waters on Earth.Frozen Frontiers follows the extraordinary journey of Viking explorers as they left Norway, settled Iceland, forged a life in Greenland, and ventured even farther west to the ... Read more

    $6.41 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From Anatolia to Germany

    The Turkish Gastarbeiter Story

    Series series Curious Journeys
    From the dusty villages of 1960s Anatolia to the factories and train stations of West Germany, millions of lives were carried on packed suitcases and one-way tickets. What began as a temporary “guest worker” program became one of the most profound migrations in modern European history.From Anatolia to Germany tells the story of the Turkish Gastarbeiter — the workers who arrived with plans to stay ... Read more

    $6.41 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Denisovans: The Lost Humans of Asia

    Genetics, Migration, and the Hidden Branch of Human Evolution

    Series series Curious Journeys
    Hidden in our DNA lies the story of a forgotten people.In 2010, a fragment of bone from a Siberian cave revealed a previously unknown branch of the human family tree. The Denisovans were neither Neanderthals nor modern humans, yet their genetic legacy remains present in millions of people today.Denisovans: The Lost Humans of Asia explores this discovery and its implications for understanding human ... Read more

    $4.80 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Out of Africa: The Journey That Created Humanity

    How Early Humans Left Africa and Spread Across Continents

    Series series Curious Journeys
    Around 60,000 years ago, a small group of humans began a journey that would change the world.They were not the strongest.They were not the fastest.But they kept moving.This book tells the story of how modern humans left Africa and gradually spread across the planet—reaching new environments, adapting to unfamiliar climates, and encountering other human species along the way.From early movements ... Read more

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  • Vikings in America

    by Graeme Davis ...
    Discover the evidence that Vikings walked on American soil—centuries before Columbus.When Columbus claimed to have discovered America in 1492 and the Borgia pope declared it a New World for Catholic Spain, the Vatican started a five-hundred-year conspiracy to conceal the true story of Viking America.In this groundbreaking new work by the author of The Early English Settlement of Orkney and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Norse Greenland

    A Controlled Experiment in Collapse--A Selection from Collapse (Penguin Tracks)

    by Jared Diamond ...
    A timely and fascinating exploration of the collapse of prehistoric Norse society in Greenland—excerpted from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jared Diamond’s CollapseThis excerpt from the New York Times–bestselling book Collapse takes a timely and fascinating look at prehistoric Norse Greenland—the closest approximation of a controlled experiment in collapse in history. One island, two unique ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Viking Age Iceland

    by Jesse Byock ...
    Medieval Iceland was unique amongst Western Europe, with no foreign policy, no defence forces, no king, no lords, no peasants and few battles. It should have been a utopia yet its literature is dominated by brutality and killing. The reasons for this, argues Jesse Byock, lie in the underlying structures and cultural codes of the islands' social order. 'Viking Age Iceland' is an engaging, multi ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Beyond the Blue Horizon

    How the Earliest Mariners Unlocked the Secrets of the Oceans

    by Brian Fagan ...
    In Beyond the Blue Horizon, bestselling science historian Brian Fagan tackles his richest topic yet: the enduring mystery of the oceans, the planet's most forbidding terrain.This is not a tale of Columbus or Hudson, but of much earlier mariners. From the moment when ancient Polynesians first dared to sail beyond the horizon, Fagan vividly explains how our mastery of the oceans has changed history, ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Westviking

    The Ancient Norse in Greenland and North America

    by Farley Mowat ...
    Step into the world of sagas, longships, and enigmatic Norse explorers with Farley Mowat’s captivating historical account, Westviking.The Viking sagas speak of a land called Vinland, a place of abundant resources and possibilities. Nearly a thousand years after the events those tales describe, Farley Mowat sets out to decipher these ancient accounts and trace their path along the rugged coastlines ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • History of the Vikings

    A Captivating Guide to the Viking Age and Feared Norse Seafarers Such as Ragnar Lothbrok, Ivar the Boneless, Egil Skallagrimsson, and More

    Explore the Captivating History of the VikingsThe predominant modern image of the mighty Viking warriors has become that of the warmonger and marauding berserker. In popular culture, the Norsemen, portrayed as giant, sword-wielding men with flowing hair and bushy beards, have been reduced to a one-dimensional tribe of ruthless warriors, who cared little for the communities they attacked and ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Fable of Freydis Eiriksdottir

    Viking Sagas, #4

    Series Book 4 - Viking Sagas
    In the land of ice and fire, where the waves of the North Atlantic crash upon rugged shores, Freydis Eiriksdóttir was born into the legendary Viking lineage of Erik the Red. From her earliest years, Freydis was no ordinary woman—defiant, fearless, and driven by the same hunger for discovery that made her family infamous.The Fable of Freydis Eiriksdóttir traces her journey from her stormy birth in ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Legend of Leif Erikson

    Viking Sagas, #3

    Series Book 3 - Viking Sagas
    Before Columbus, there was Leif Eriksson. A Viking of extraordinary courage and vision, he sailed across the treacherous Atlantic to discover a new world centuries before his more famous counterpart.This epic saga delves deep into the life of this legendary explorer, painting a vivid portrait of a man driven by an insatiable curiosity. From the icy fjords of Greenland to the untamed wilderness of ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus