The Vikings
By: Neil Oliver
Edition: First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9781605984834
Subjects: Social life and customs; Vikings; History
Description: Uncovers new information about the Vikings, describing where they originated, how they lived, and what drove their thirst for exploration, traveling as far as America and Baghdad over one thousand years ago.
Notes: Originally published: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [269]-271) and index.
Table of contents: title: By rock and ice; title: Stone, bronze, and iron; title: The wider world; title: Pagans from the North; title: Swedish Vikings in the East; title: The endless stream of Vikings; title: The Great Heathen Army; title: A rising tide; title: Cnut the Great; title: Principal Viking characters.