Neil Oliver - 2017 - The Vikings - A New History (History)

The Vikings: A New History - Neil Oliver - 2017







By: Neil Oliver

Narrated by: James A. Gillies

Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins

Unabridged

Release date: 11-28-17

Language: English

Genre: History, Ancient

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Format: mp3 64/22.05 mono



Publisher's 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 200 years.



Drawing on the latest discoveries that have only recently come to light, Scottish archaeologist Neil Oliver goes on the trail of the real Vikings. Where did they emerge from? How did they really live? And just what drove them to embark on such extraordinary voyages of discovery over 1,000 years ago? The Vikings: A New History explores many of those questions for the first time in an epic story of one of the world's great empires of conquest.



©2013 Neil Oliver (P)2017 Tantor



Critic Reviews



"Anyone interested in finding out more about these real-life raiders will enjoy everything Oliver reveals." (Publishers Weekly)















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