Helge Ingstad

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1) The Apache Indians: in search of the missing tribe

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Tells the story of the Norwegian explorer Helge Ingstad's sojourn among the Apaches near the White Mountain Reservation in Arizona and his epic journey to locate the "lost" group of their brethren in the Sierra Madres in the 1930s.

2) Land under the Pole Star: a voyage to the Norse settlements of Greenland and the saga of the people that vanished

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Norse settlement and culture in south-west Greenland in Middle Ages. Field work in 1953. Translation of Norwegian original Landet under leidarstjernen, published in 1959.

3) Westward to Vinland: the discovery of pre-Columbian Norse house-sites in North America

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Translation of Norwegian original "Vesterveg til Vinland", Oslo, 1965, containing account of author's expedition in 1960 and excavations in 1961-64 at L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland