Before Columbus: The Leif Eriksson Expedition
- ISBN-10
- 0375813470
- ISBN-13
- 9780375813474
- Series
- Before Columbus
- Category
- Juvenile Nonfiction
- Pages
- 98
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- Random House Books for Young Readers
- Author
- Elizabeth Cody Kimmel
Description
Presents a biography of Leif, son of Norseman Eric the Red, who led a group of Vikings from Greenland on a voyage which ended on the shores of North America--five hundred years before Christopher Columbus.
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- 2007-10-01
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