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"[...]changed the history not only of this continent but of Europe likewise. They had found and colonised Iceland and Greenland. They had found Labrador, and called it Helluland, from its ice-polished rocks. They had found Nova Scotia seemingly, and called it Markland, from its woods. They had found New England, and called it Vinland the Good. A fair land they found it, well wooded, with good pasturage; so that they had already imported cows, and a bull whose lowings terrified the Esquimaux. They had found self-sown corn too, probably maize. The streams were full of salmon. But they had called the land Vinland, by reason of its[...]."
Kingsley, Charles
CHARLES KINGSLEY nasceu em 1819, em Devon, na Inglaterra. Estudou na Univer¬sidade de Cambridge e, além de escritor, foi também pastor anglicano e capelão da rainha Vitória. Em 1860 foi nomeado professor de História Moderna na Univer¬sidade de Cambridge. Em 1869, desistiu do magistério e, de 1870 a 1873, foi cônego da catedral de Chester. Lá, fundou a Socie-dade de Ciências Naturais, Literatura e Artes de Chester, que teve grande impor¬tância na criação do Grosvenor Museum. Kingsley morreu em 1875. |
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