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Alan Baker.
The Viking.
Published Hoboken: Wiley, 2004.
ISBN 0471430498;
ISBN-13: 9780471430490.
Binding: hardback, perfect bound.
Printed in the USA.
Size: 145×221×20mm.
Page count: 216pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: these copies are unused but show some spme evidence of long-term storage, the usual mild scuffs on the covers, etc.; printed on low-grade paper, so pages yellowed with age.

This item £6.00
P&P inc. within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[~~Publisher’s price US$22.95/Can$32.99/£14.99~~]
Weight without packaging: 366g.

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One moment they were a mere speck on the sea; the next, a murderous force slashing its way into unprotected monasteries and villages; routing proud armies; and pillaging villages and kidnapping innocents. For three centuries the Vikings rained terror on Europe. As fearsome as these warriors were, however, there was far more to Viking life and culture than battle.

The Viking takes you on a fantastic voyage into history, where you’ll meet legendary Viking warriors, explorers, kings, and poets. It chronicles the repeated Norse invasions of the british Isles and the European mainland, from the destruction of the Anglo-Celtic monastery at Lindisfarne through the founding of Normandy and the battles of Hastings and Stamford Bridge. This enlightening book also examines Viking culture, religion and explorations, including:

Norse gods, mythology, and belief in an afterlife

Day-to-day life in Viking settlements

Discovery and settlement of Iceland and Greenland

Leif Eriksson’s voyage to the New World

A Viking battle with Native Americans

Swedish exploits in the Volga and the founding of Russia.

Contents: Warriors of the north; Gods & monsters; Society & culture; Journeys to a new world; New lives in the east; Epilogue — end of the Viking age.
Appendix: List of Viking kings.

Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no

Notes: no
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: yes
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 3pp
Index: yes

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