Presents brief biographies of the Norse explorer who settled Greenland and of his son who explored parts of North America almost 500 years before Columbus made his first voyage.
Introduces children to the life of Viking adventurer Leif Eriksson, chronicling his famed voyage, in which he sailed to Newfoundland, where he established the first European colony in North America.
A biography of Leif Erikson describing his boyhood in Iceland, his father Erik the Red's voyage to Greenland, and his own voyage to North America around 1000 A.D.