Download or read book The Ice-shirt written by William T. Vollmann and published by New York : Viking ; Markham, Ont. : Penguin Books Canada. This book was released on 1990 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The time is the tenth century A.D. The newcomers are a proud and bloody-minded people whose kings once changed themselves into wolves. The Norse have advanced as implacably as a glacier from Iceland to the wastes of Greenland and from there to the place they call Vinland the Good. The natives are a bronze-skinned race who have not yet discovered iron and still see themselves as part of nature"--Publisher description.