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Drawing on an exhaustive chronological survey of pre-Columbian maps, including the controversial Yale Vinland Map, this book boldly challenges conventional accounts of Europe's discovery of the New World.

How did medieval Europeans have such specific geographic knowledge of North America, a land even their most daring adventurers had not yet discovered? In Erikson, Eskimos, and Columbus, James Robert Enterline presents new evidence that traces this knowledge to the cartographic skills of indigenous people of the high Arctic, who, he contends, provided the basis for medieval maps of large parts of North America. Drawing on an exhaustive chronological survey of pre-Columbian maps, including the controversial Yale Vinland Map, this book boldly challenges conventional accounts of Europe''s discovery of the New World.

James Enterline convinced me when he presented his interpretation of medieval maps of the Arctic region.
—Thor Heyerdahl

A thorough investigation of the evidence of Norse information about the New World and how this was transmitted to Europe. Perhaps the most novel idea is that the Norse may have learned map making from the Inuit people; the most provocative is the author''s discussion of the Vinland map, which in itself would make an important work. The book is logically and effectively organized, the scholarship is exemplary, and the writing style is readable and interesting.
—Norman J. W. Thrower, UCLA

This book belongs in research map collections, particularly those focusing on northern regions or antiquarian maps.
—Alice C. Hudson, Chief of the Map Division, New York Public Library

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Erikson, Eskimos, and Columbus : Medieval European Knowledge of America

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