![]() ![]() ![]() Some foxing and occasional finger prints. Slight book cloth separation to back board fore edge. Corners bumped with wear to edges and spine ends. One copy found in OCLC as of December 2021.Ĩvo, 48pp + 15 black and white plates. ![]() Designed to be easy to follow, literally and figuratively, Shepard’s guide serves as a walking tour including the locations and wordings of various plaques and suggested street car routes with estimated fares. ![]() Published in the same year as the death of American chemist and antiquarian researcher Eben Norton Horsford, “it is the purpose of this little volume to guide all who may wish to follow his footsteps over the ground he has opened and prepared for us, and enjoy the fruit of his labor and research.” Specifically, it distills Horsford’s theory of Leif Erickson’s arrival in Watertown, Massachusetts in the year 1000 and offers detailed maps, area photographs and walking routes to track the remnants of what he called, “Norumbega, the Seaport of the Northmen in Vineland,” including wharves, walls, an amphitheater and what Horsford believed to be Erickson’s house. A Guide Book to Norumbega and Vineland Or, The Archaeological Treasures Along Charles River. An extremely scarce and well-detailed guide to the supposed New England Viking port Norumbega and its surrounding area dedicated to its then-late discoverer Eben Norton Horsford. ![]()
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