Skelton THE VINLAND MAP AND THE TARTAR RELATION 1965

Description: RA Skelton, Thomas Marston, and George Painter THE VINLAND MAP AND THE TARTAR RELATION. 1996, reprint of the 1965 edition for the History Book Club. Large format coffee table size volume. Included, brochure from the History book club and a newspaper clipping from 1970’s stating the map is a fake Because evidence concerning the Viking discovery of North America in the tenth and eleventh centuries is so incomplete, investigation of this area of history will be substantially aided by the discovery of new documents. Such is the claim made for the previously unknown manuscripts here published for the first time. They are two documents copied about 1440 from much earlier originals, now lost. The first is an account of Friar John of Plano Carpini’s mission to the Mongols in 1245-47. The second is a world map, including the western ocean, with delineation of Iceland, Greenland, and a land mass named Vinland which represents the North American mainland as known to the medieval Norsemen. This map is the earliest known and indisputable cartographic representation of any part of the Americas.

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Location: Fernley, Nevada

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