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The Vikings / Neil Oliver.
LIBRA DL65 .O45 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Oliver, Neil, 1967- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vikings--History.
- Vikings.
- Vikings--Social life and customs.
- Civilization, Viking.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 284 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Pegasus books trade paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Pegasus Books, 2014.
- Summary:
- "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."--Jacket.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781605986395
- 1605986399
- OCLC:
- 895018822
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