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Bertil Almgren et al.
The Viking.
Published London: C. A. Watts & Co., 1966.
[No ISBN].
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printer: Enrico Berinzaghi and Torriani SPA, Milan.
Size: 287x306x37mm.
Page count: 288pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: the dustjacket on this copy is very ragged, and somewhat discoloured with age; some mild bumps and dinks on the boards and spine; pages starting to yellow with age; text appears to be free of marking.
This item £10.00
plus P&P £13.50 within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)Weight without packaging: 2401g.
Contents: How the Vikings became skilled shipbuilders, navigators & seamen; Settlements in Scandinavia; Why the Vikings left home; Great trading centres — Birka, Kaupang, Gotland & Hedeby; Armed camps at home — Kings of Denmark prepare to invade England; Westward over the ocean — Scotland to America; South to the Mediterranean & east to Asia; Viking values — old gods & new, classes & professions, customs & morals; Power of words — runes, sagas, poems; Daily life; The longship — how it developed from earliest beginnings to greatest days.
Notes: no
Tables: no
Illustrations: throughout primarily monochrome drawings and colour photographs
Maps & plans: 23
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: yes
Bibliography: 2pp
Index: yes[BML/LF]
See also | Vikings |
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