...Ferenc M. Szasz Before Columbus: The New History of Celtic, Egyptian, Phoenician, Viking, Black African, and Asian Contacts and Impacts in the Americas Before 1492 . By Marble Samuel D. . South Brunswick and New York : A. S. Barnes and Co. ; and London : Thomas Yoseloff Ltd. , 1980...

...Robert H. Fuson If Land to the West stimulates inquiry into the whole problem of pre-Viking voyages to America it will make a real contribution to the history of exploration. If pieces of the text are used to champion the extreme pro or con arguments raging about this phase of history...

... they were Baffin Island, Labrador, and the island of Newfoundland, as Ingstad claims, is another matter. The unquestioned proof of a Viking settlement at L’Anse aux Meadows does not necessarily prove that insular Newfoundland is Vinland, nor does it establish that this was the camp of Leif the Lucky...

..., the author states that Bjarni Herjulfsson was the first Viking to reach America, coasting Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and Cape Cod in the year 987 A.D. These sailing directions later served Leif Erikson who, according to Pohl, landed at Follins Pond on Cape Cod, about four miles up the Bass River from...

... influence is quasi-Messianic: “Because he fought for the poor, and because he chose to be sacrificed in his prime, he gives a mystical feeling that he dies for us , for all humanity” (p. 105). This addition to Viking Press’ “Modern Masters” series is an excellent readable introduction to the life...

... they arrived at least a century before the Norse. Pressed by the Viking invaders, they then pushed on to Greenland and America, where they settled “Hvitramannaland”—Ireland the Great—in the St. Lawrence Valley some time in the tenth century. Carl O. Sauer has combined a broad knowledge of geography...

...Dana G. Munro A New Doctrine for the Americas . By Wertenbaker Charles . ( New York : The Viking Press , 1941 . $2.00 .) Copyright 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 ...

...Richard Pattee The Black Consul . By Vinogradov Anatolii . ( New York : The Viking Press , 1935 . Pp. 438 . $2.75 .) Copyright 1935 by Duke University Press 1935 ...

...A. Curtis Wilgus Images of Earth: Guatemala . By Rothery Agnes . ( New York : The Viking Press , 1934 . Pp. 206 . Illus. $3.00 .) Copyright 1936 by Duke University Press 1936 ...

... Conqueror of the Seas. The Story of Magellan . By Zweig Stefan . ( New York : The Viking Press , 1938 . Pp. xvi , 335 . Illus. Map. $3.50 .) Copyright 1939 by Duke University Press 1939 ...

...J. Fred Rippy American Foreign Investments . By Dunn Robert W. . ( New York : Huebsch and the Viking Press , 1926 . Pp. 421 . $5.00 .) Copyright 1926 by Duke University Press 1926 ...

...Simon G. Hanson Copyright 1943 by Duke University Press 1943 Argentina: The Life Story of a Nation . By White John W. . ( New York : The Viking Press , 1942 . Pp. xi , 366 . $3.75 .) ...

...Madaline W. Nichols Copyright 1943 by Duke University Press 1943 The Knight of El Dorado . By Arciniegas Germán . Translation by Adams Mildred . ( New York : The Viking Press , 1942 . Pp. 301 . $3.00 .) ...

...Walter V. Scholes Juarez and His Mexico . By Roeder Ralph . ( New York : The Viking Press , 1947 . 2 vols. Pp. 763 . Illustrations. $10.00 .) Copyright 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 ...

...Irving A. Leonard The Conquistadores . By Descola Jean . Translation by Barnes Malcolm . New York , 1957 . The Viking Press . Maps. Illustrations. Chronology. Index . Pp. 404 . $5.00 . Copyright 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 ...

...Fernando Ortiz Djuka, the Bush Negroes of Dutch Guiana . By Kahn Morton C. . ( New York : The Viking Press , 1931 . Pp. xxiv , 233 . Illus., plates, folded map . $3.50 .) Copyright 1933 by Duke University Press 1933 ...

...Charles E. Chapman Copyright 1933 by Duke University Press 1933 South America: Lights and Shadows . By Edschmid Kasimir . Translated from the German by Williams Oakley . ( New York : The Viking Press , 1932 . Pp. 408 . Illus.; map . $5.00 .) ...

...Thomas F. McGann Brazil. Portrait of a Great Country . Text by Geld Ellen Bromfield . Edited by Geyerhahn Stefan . The Netherlands , 1960 . The Viking Press . Photographs . Pp. 18 , 151 plates . Cloth. Copyright 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 ...

...Bert James Loewenberg Copyright 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 Ideological Differences and World Order; Studies in the Philosophy and Science of the World’s Cultures . Edited by Northrop F. S. C. . [ Published for the Viking Fund .] ( New Haven : Yale University Press...

...Alexander Marchant Copyright 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 Brazil, land of the future . By Zweig Stefan . Translated by St. James Andrew . ( New York : The Viking Press , 1941 . Pp. 282 . $3.00 .) Brasil, país do futuro . By Zweig Stefan . Translated...