title: The Frozen Echo: Greenland and the Exploration of North America, ca. A.D. 1000-1500
author:  Kirsten A. Seaver 
description: "This is a fascinating book, not only for those engaged in Atlantic studies or early American history. The clear and precise text, the skillful management of complex themes, and above all the sympathetic approach to human endeavors, coupled with a skeptical view of earlier theories and an open mind to new ideas, make it as easy to read as a novel." (<i>The Times Higher Education Supplement</i>)<br /><br />"For many aspiring writers, this book might well be a model of how to put across a complex theme in an easy-to-read manner. It is sure to provide much new information even to those who specialize in the North Atlantic, and provide topics for discussion, disagreement, and thought, as any well-researched book should do." (<i>Journal of the International Map Collector's Society</i>)<br /><br />"Of major importance, this book fills a serious gap in scholarly studies of European expansion. It brings new understandings to the relationships between Norse discoveries and the great voyages of Renaissance discovery in the North Atlantic. Furthermore, it is fascinating reading, written in a lively and very readable style. It should interest the general public and amateur historians as well as scholars." (Dr. Helen Walls, British Map Library)
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  ## Bronze Summer
  
  
    
  
  
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  ## Stephen Baxter
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Bronze Summer
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Once the ice had covered continents. The silence of the world had been
  profound.
  
  
  Eventually, grudgingly, the ice retreated to its fastnesses in the mountains
  and at the poles. Humans spread northward, colonising the recovering land.
  They lived sparsely, their lives brief. Soon the ice was remembered only in
  myth.
  
  
  Yet the world around them continued to endure significant changes. The land
  rose and flexed as it was relieved of the burden of the weight of the ice, and
  meltwater flowed into the oceans and pooled in hollows on the land. Rising
  seas bit at the coastlines of Northland, the great neck of land that still
  connected the peninsula called Albia to the Continent. Perhaps that neck would
  have been sever