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Alban Quest

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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.