It takes the average reader 7 hours and 8 minutes to read The Vanished Settlers of Greenland by Robert Rix
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
For four hundred years, Norse settlers battled to make southern Greenland a new, sustainable home. They strove against gales and winter cold, food shortages and in the end a shifting climate. The remnants they left behind speak of their determination to wrest an existence at the foot of this vast, icy and challenging wilderness. Yet finally, seemingly suddenly, they vanished; and their mysterious disappearance in the fifteenth century has posed a riddle to scholars ever since. What happened to the lost Viking colonists? For centuries people assumed their descendants could still be living, so expeditions went to find them: to no avail. Robert Rix tells the gripping story of the missing pioneers, placing their poignant history in the context of cultural discourse and imperial politics. Ranging across fiction, poetry, navigation, reception and tales of exploration, he expertly delves into one of the most contested questions in the annals of colonization.
The Vanished Settlers of Greenland by Robert Rix is 423 pages long, and a total of 107,019 words.
This makes it 143% the length of the average book. It also has 131% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 44 minutes to read The Vanished Settlers of Greenland aloud.
The Vanished Settlers of Greenland is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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