Topsail and Battleaxe Author:Tom Cunliffe Tom Cunliffe and his wife, Ros, gather their four-year-old daughter and a couple of friends into the 75-year-old pilot cutter HIRTA, and embark on an amazing expedition sailing north from England to Norway, then bashing their way westward from Norway to Iceland, past Greenland to l'Anse aux Meadows in northern Newfoundland. Their burning desire ... more »to retrace the explorations of the 10th-century Vikings is told with gusto, and Cunliffe interweaves stories of Viking adventures with HIRTA's progress, relating a great deal about ancient Viking history and showing that the Viking spirit still lives on in present-day Scandinavians« less