Maps, Myths, and Men

Kirsten A. Seaver is an independent historian, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, London, a novelist, and a translator. She is the author of The Frozen Echo (Stanford, 1996).

"Seaver has created the definitive portrait of the Vinland Map controversy and has shown us a route home." - Science Magazine "It is an enjoyable book to read, and the author writes in such an enthusiastic way that the book reads almost like a detective story." - Canadian Journal of History "In Maps, Myths, and Men, Kirsten A. Seaver provides a supremely well-researched and documented account of the map's nearly forty-years of public controversy....As well as providing the most detailed account and analysis of the map available, Seaver has also provided a book which allows historians and scholars to reflect more widely on the ways in which personal lives and situations interfere with and inform objective scholarship." - Itinerario "...a fascinating and very readable investigation..." - Viking Heritage Magazine "...the sustained and comprehensive argument presented here is a masterly synthesis that should represent the last word on one of the most contentious debates in modern medieval scholarship." - Speculum "In a superlative piece of cross-disciplinary detective work, Norwegian independent scholar Seaver deconstructs the machinations, manipulations, and odd strokes of genius that have played into the story of the Vinland map." - Publishers Weekly