Banished to the Edge: How Erik the Red Sold an Icy Hell and Built a Viking Empire

What drives a man to trade the blood-soaked soil of his homeland for a ghost story whispered across an ocean of ice?For most people, history is a collection of sterile dates and clean marble statues. But if you are a reader who demands to feel the biting spray of salt spray on your face, to hear the ominous groaning of a wooden hull trapped in pack ice, and to understand the raw, unvarnished psych...