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The Vikings / Neil Oliver.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Pegasus Books, 2013Edition: First Pegasus Books cloth editionDescription: xx, 284 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1605984833
  • 9781605984834 :
Subject(s):
Contents:
By rock and ice -- Stone, bronze, and iron -- The wider world -- Pagans from the North -- Swedish Vikings in the East -- The endless stream of Vikings -- The Great Heathen Army -- A rising tide -- Cnut the Great -- Principal Viking characters.
Summary: Uncovers new information about the Vikings, describing where they originated, how they lived, and what drove their thirst for exploration, traveling as far as America and Baghdad over one thousand years ago.
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The Vikings famously took no prisoners, relished cruel retribution, and prided themselves on their bloodthirsty skills as warriors. But their prowess in battle is only a small part of their story, which stretches from their Scandinavian origins to America in the west and as far as Baghdad in the east. As the Vikings did not write their own history, we have to discover it for ourselves, and that discovery, as Neil Oliver reveals, tells an extraordinary story of a people who, from the brink of destruction, reached a quarter of the way around the globe and built an empire that lasted nearly two hundred years.Drawing on the latest discoveries that have only recently come to light, Scottish archaeologist Neil Oliver goes on the trail of the real Vikings. Where did they emerge from? How did they really live? And just what drove them to embark on such extraordinary voyages of discovery over 1,000 years ago? Vikings explores many of those questions for the first time in an epic story of one of the world's great empires of conquest.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [269]-271) and index.

By rock and ice -- Stone, bronze, and iron -- The wider world -- Pagans from the North -- Swedish Vikings in the East -- The endless stream of Vikings -- The Great Heathen Army -- A rising tide -- Cnut the Great -- Principal Viking characters.

Uncovers new information about the Vikings, describing where they originated, how they lived, and what drove their thirst for exploration, traveling as far as America and Baghdad over one thousand years ago.

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