Simon's Voyage to the Western Lands

About the Book

About the Author

Michael Cohn, anthropologist and teacher, has travelled on fishing boats, coastal steamers, and coast guard vessels along many shores of the North Atlantic. He has visited northern Scandinavia, the Shetlands, and Iceland as well as York, England and Bergen, Norway, where much of the action of this novel takes place. As guest curator, he has created an exhibit of the Jewish sea traders of the twelfth century at the Yeshiva University Museum in New York City. Illustrator’s Biography Erik Ronnberg is a professional model boat builder whose ships, paintings, and research articles are widely known.