The book of the French writer Gilles Ragash "To America" belongs to the genre "Myths and Legends" and is a collection of ancient legends telling about successful and unsuccessful attempts to swim across the ocean and reach the shores of the mysterious land, which was later called America. The action in these legends takes place long before Christopher Columbus discovered America. The first attempts were made back in ancient times, and there is much evidence that they were crowned with success more than once. Warlike Vikings also visited America. They reached its northern lands, gradually expanding the boundaries of the idea of ​ ​ lands lying overseas.