The Land of Feast and Famine

“Before renowned Norwegian explorer Ingstad discovered the site of Leif Erikson’s North American landfall, he spent the years from 1926 to 1930 living the adventurer’s life, trapping fur in the Canadian tundra. The wondrous book transports readers to the time and place.” Publishers Weekly “An adventure/travel story that is also a first-hand account of the last days of the fur trappers’ society … a valuable document ” Dorothy Harley Eber, author of When The Whalers Were Up North

Helge Ingstad is most known for his discovery of the location where Vikings landed in North America 500 years before Columbus. Norwegian by birth, he abandoned a lucrative law career to become a trapper in the Canadian Arctic, served as a governor in Greenland, and lived with the Apache Indians and Alaskan Eskimos. In addition to this book, Ingstad authored “East of the Great Glacier, The Viking Discovery of America, Westward to Vinland, East of the Great Glacier”, and “Land of Feast and Famine”. He died in 2001.