The Vikings
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Author: James Graham-Campbell, Dafydd Kidd
Binding: Hardback
Published: Book Club Associates, 1980
Condition:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Very light general wear to cover, otherwise excellent condition
The Vikings were administrators as well as pirates, merchants as well as robbers, creators as well as destroyers. They had a strong and vital culture of their own, as well as a readiness to absorb outside influences and ideas. Their culture indicated in this book, as is the daring and adventurous spirit which, a thousand years ago, led them West to discover America and to found settlements in Greenland, East to Kiev and to navigate the Volga, South to serve at the court of Byzantium and, in Europe, to penetrate the heart of the Empire of Charlemagne and dominate the British Isles.
Author: James Graham-Campbell, Dafydd Kidd
Binding: Hardback
Published: Book Club Associates, 1980
Condition:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Very light general wear to cover, otherwise excellent condition
The Vikings were administrators as well as pirates, merchants as well as robbers, creators as well as destroyers. They had a strong and vital culture of their own, as well as a readiness to absorb outside influences and ideas. Their culture indicated in this book, as is the daring and adventurous spirit which, a thousand years ago, led them West to discover America and to found settlements in Greenland, East to Kiev and to navigate the Volga, South to serve at the court of Byzantium and, in Europe, to penetrate the heart of the Empire of Charlemagne and dominate the British Isles.