The Voyage of the Alamar

Informative Links About Newfoundland
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Newfoundland - by Alexander Weld - from the introduction to his Newfoundland Crusing Guide. Excellent brief intro. Read this!

Fadging Around the Rock -by C.W. Lee - Informative brief memoir of recent trip around Newfoundland. Not a sailing trip, but the author traveled on coastal supply boats, so he visited some of the same type places that we will.

Travellers' Guide from Newfoundland-Labrador Tourism Department - Many links to relevant sites

Map of Newfoundland (outline map showing principal towns)

Background Info on L'Anse aux Meadows and Viking Exploration

Reading Suggestions
(links are to BarnesandNoble.com pages for more info and online purchase)

Shipping News - AnnieProulx's National Book Award story of an odd soul in Newfoundland

The Boat Who Wouldn't Float, by Farley Mowat

The Outport People, by Clair Mowat

The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, by Wayne Johnston - "the great Newfoundland Novel"

Out of Gloucester, by James B Connolly - stories of the fishing fleet when it was all schooners

The European Discovery of America : The Northern Voyages A.D. 500-1600, Vol. 1, Samuel Eliot Morison - brilliantly readable background on Viking and other voyages

Kit's Law, by Donna Morrisey - "Donna Morrissey's first novel is completely original in voice and wholly timeless. It is the story of a family of women living in a remote outpost in Newfoundland who have carved a life out of the very rock in this isolated part of the world," says the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Review