Vinland The Good

Vinland the Good is the title of at least two books.

  • It is a film script by British author Nevil Shute telling the historical story of the discovery of America by Leif Ericsson (so spelt) in 1003. The book was originally published in 1946 in England by Heinemann and in America by Morrow, and re-published in America in 1998 by The Paper Tiger (ISBN 1-8894-39-11-8). In his preface to the script, Shute says “I put a very little of into a novel which was published in 1939” – this was An Old Captivity, actually first published in 1940.
  • It is also a juvenile historical novel by Henry Treece, an account of the Viking explorations. It is a fairly faithful adaptation of the Greenland saga. Leif Ericson is the main character, but several of his relatives and Karlsefni are also important characters.
Novels by Nevil Shute
  • Stephen Morris and Pilotage (1923)
  • Marazan (1926)
  • So Disdained (1928)
  • Lonely Road (1932)
  • Ruined City (1938)
  • What Happened to the Corbetts (1939)
  • An Old Captivity (1940)
  • Landfall: A Channel Story (1940)
  • Pied Piper (1942)
  • Most Secret (1945)
  • Pastoral (1944)
  • Vinland the Good (1946)
  • The Chequer Board (1947)
  • No Highway (1948)
  • A Town Like Alice (1950)
  • Round the Bend (1951)
  • The Far Country (1952)
  • In the Wet (1953)
  • Slide Rule: Autobiography of an Engineer (1954)
  • Requiem for a Wren (1955)
  • Beyond the Black Stump (1956)
  • On the Beach (1957)
  • The Rainbow and the Rose (1958)
  • Trustee from the Toolroom (1960)
  • The Seafarers (2000)

Famous quotes containing the words the good:

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