The Northmen's Fury
A History of the Viking World
$36.69
- Paperback
480 pages
- Release Date
1 September 2015
Summary
The definitive account of the Viking World by one of Britain’s best historians.
The Northmen’s Fury tells the Viking story, from the first pinprick raids of the eighth century to the great armies that left their Scandinavian homelands to conquer larger parts of France, Britain and Ireland. It recounts the epic voyages that took them across the Atlantic to the icy fjords of Greenland and to North America over four centuries before Columbus and east to the great rivers of Russi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099551843 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0099551845 |
| Author: | Philip Parker |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2015 |
| Weight: | 378g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 29mm |
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Critics Review
It is quite a feat to write history this good… Everyone who visits the British Museum’s Viking exhibition should go clutching a copy of this engaging and splendidly written book.
It is quite a feat to write history this good… Everyone who visits the British Museum’s Viking exhibition should go clutching a copy of this engaging and splendidly written book. – Dan Jones * Sunday Times *
Parker has a traveller’s eye for landscape and a storyteller’s sense of events and character; The Northmen’s Fury is probably the most lively and well-informed introduction to the subject available today. * New Statesman *
Particularly fascinating… [Parker] proves expert at treading a delicate line between scholarship and his relish for the fantastical. – Tom Holland * The Times *
This book is a treasury with treats galore. Lucid, comprehensive, it is a work of reference which deserves to become a classic. * Historical Novel Society *
Perfectly timed for the forthcoming British Museum exhibition. * Sunday Times *
Philip Parker has encapsulated the Viking story in this book. * CGA Magazine *
[An] energetic and intelligent guide to the Viking world. – A.N. Wilson * Sunday Telegraph *
A detailed study that succeeds in conveying the impact of the Viking age… A fascinating read. – Martin Arnold * Literary Review *
Engrossing * Mail on Sunday *
About The Author
Philip Parker
Philip Parker was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He has travelled widely including the whole length of the Roman frontier and large parts of the Viking World. He is the author of The Empire Stops Here- A Journey Along the Frontiers of the Roman World.
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