{"product_id":"9780547539393","title":"The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe remarkable story of Gudrid, the female explorer who sailed from Iceland to the New World a millennium ago.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed off the edge of the known world. She landed in the New World and lived there for three years, giving birth to a baby before sailing home. Or so the Icelandic sagas say. Even after archaeologists found a Viking longhouse in Newfoundland, no one believed that the details of Gudrid’s story were true.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Then, in 2001, a team of scientists discovered what may have been this pioneering woman’s last house, buried under a hay field in Iceland, just where the epic tales suggest it could be.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Joining scientists experimenting with cutting-edge technology and the latest archaeological techniques, and tracing Gudrid’s steps on land and in the sagas, \u003ci\u003eThe Far Traveler\u003c\/i\u003e reconstructs a life that spanned—and expanded—the bounds of the then-known world. It also sheds new light on the society that gave rise to a woman even more extraordinary than legend has painted her, and illuminates the reasons for its collapse.\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47120283992304,"sku":"9780547539393","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780547539393_p0.jpg?v=1769896718","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780547539393","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}