Alban Quest [Paperback]

Farley Mowat (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 7, 2000

This book presents a portrait of the Albans, a seafaring tribe who originated in the country now known as Scotland. Battered by repeated Celtic, Norse and Roman invasions, the Albans fled west, first to Iceland, then to Greenland and finally across the Atlantic to Canada.

Product Details

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Orion Books (September 7, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0753810883
• ISBN-13: 978-0753810880
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,067,868 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #76 in Books > History > Americas > Greenland

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4.0 out of 5 stars The Alban Quest seems to be the British publication of "The Farfarers", September 29, 2010

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T. Eagle - See all my reviews

This review is from: Alban Quest (Paperback)

This is not a review so much as a suggestion regarding this one book, The Alban quest.
(Although I should say that I have very much enjoyed reading Farley Mowat's The Siberians; The People of the Deer; and Never Cry Wolf. I reverently treasure Mr Mowat's perspective.)

Please be advised that, if you are considering buying the book The Alban Quest, it seems to be the same book as The Farfarers. This I gather from the last sentence of the excerpt below, which is pasted directly from the Wikipedia entry about the book The Farfarers:

"The Farfarers: Before the Norse (2000) is a book by Farley Mowat that sets out a theory about pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact. Mowat's thesis is that even before the Vikings, North America was discovered and settled by Europeans originating from Orkney who reached Canada after a generation-spanning migration that used Iceland and Greenland as 'stepping stones'. Mowat's ideas are controversial and have been accused of being over-speculative. The book has been published in the UK as The Alban Quest."

I can't say what all the specific differences may be between the two publications (for example one publication has three fewer pages than the other), but I myself am ordering The Farfarers because it was published one year later than The Alban Quest, and I speculate that should any improvements have been requested by the author, they may have been realized in the later edition.