greenland

When twelve-year-old Peter and his family arrive in Greenland for his father's research, he stumbles upon a secret his mother has been hiding from him all his life, and begins an adventure he never imagines possible.

Discusses the geography and climate, history, wildlife, economy, government, people, religion, and culture of the island nation of Greenland.

In Greenland, a young girl named Sira tries to protect her baby brother Ivik from a "big fuzzy"--a polar bear--and gets help from an unexpected source while trying to escape danger.

The other Inuit boys ridicule little Inunguak, who cannot hunt and spends all his time listening to his grandfather's old stories of the People, until bad times come to Greenland and the stories become useful.

A brief biography of tenth-century adventurer and explorer, Eric the Red, describing his life in Norway and in Iceland, his discovery of Greenland, and founder of the first European settlement in Greenland.

In Greenland, a boy and his father fish through the ice that covers a fjord.

The Bajare family from Greenland describes what their home is like, what work they do, and what food they like to eat.

Faced with increasingly harsh winters and deteriorating morale in fifteenth-century Greenland, a young man struggles to rally the last few surviving Norse colonists, who feel their only hope is rescue by ships from Norway.

Describes the geography and traces the history of the world's largest island, much of which lies above the Arctic Circle.

An illustrated history of the Vikings, looking at the Scandinavian warriors from the perspectives of history, archaeology, oral tradition, literature, and natural science.