Chance West by Rudi London

Let us travel together a full one thousand years back… to 1012: to the days of the spear, the ax… and The Speaking Cross! Leiv “Lucky” Eiriksson, a Norwegian Viking now settled on Greenland, decides to come back to the land west where he first built a dwelling eleven years earlier; but this time he takes a big chance: bringing his twelve-year old son, Lil’ Leiv with him. We have been digging deep into historical pasts to find you these treasures and many scholars have deliberated intensely over this through the ages: did you know that Christopher Columbus once traveled to Iceland; to study those maps the Vikings had drawn… after their fruitful visits to what King Olav Tryggvason most properly named... Amerika. You’ll learn how Manhattan and Niagara Falls, in the today’s great state of New York, first got their names. You will rejoice even more over getting this first hand knowledge: who was the one that initially introduced the now famous Viking helmet with those two horns…. It will also amaze you to no end learning what the Vikings called the natives of the New Found Land. We might thrill ourselves with such tidbits, however, this adventure is all about Lil’ becoming a man, getting introduced to the Laws of the Universe, flirting with destiny, finding the sweetness of true love… to suddenly lose her in an explosion of challenges complicated by a shocking discovery of the horrendous practices by the sun worshipers from the Lost Tribe; his search for a reunion of two hearts… lives being shattered with mind shivering Ezekiel like attacks by the earth trembling Whirlwind Cloud… Sodom & Gomorrah, please step aside!