Eric the Red and Leif the Lucky
- ISBN-10
- 089375174X
- ISBN-13
- 9780893751746
- Category
- Juvenile Nonfiction / History / Medieval
- Pages
- 43
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1979
- Publisher
- Troll Associates
- Author
- Barbara Schiller
Description
Presents brief biographies of the Norse explorer who settled Greenland and of his son who explored parts of North America almost 500 years before Columbus made his first voyage.
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