The Long Ships

Author : Frans G. Bengtsson
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 159017416X
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Long Ships written by Frans G. Bengtsson and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frans Gunnar Bengtsson’s The Long Ships resurrects the fantastic world of the tenth century AD when the Vikings roamed and rampaged from the northern fastnesses of Scandinavia down to the Mediterranean. Bengtsson’s hero, Red Orm—canny, courageous, and above all lucky—is only a boy when he is abducted from his Danish home by the Vikings and made to take this place at the oars of their dragon-prowed ships. Orm is then captured by the Moors in Spain, where he is initiated into the pleasures of the senses and fights for the Caliph of Cordova. Escaping from captivity, Orm washes up in Ireland, where he marvels at those epicene creatures, the Christian monks, and from which he then moves on to play an ever more important part in the intrigues of the various Scandinavian kings and clans and dependencies. Eventually, Orm contributes to the Viking defeat of the army of the king of England and returns home an off-the-cuff Christian and a very rich man, though back on his native turf new trials and tribulations will test his cunning and determination. Packed with pitched battles and blood feuds and told throughout with wit and high spirits, Bengtsson’s book is a splendid adventure that features one of the most unexpectedly winning heroes in modern fiction.

Author : Frans G. Bengtsson
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007560710
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Long Ships: A Saga of the Viking Age written by Frans G. Bengtsson and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2014-03-13 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This saga brings alive the world of the 10th century AD when the Vikings raided the coasts of England.

Author : Frans Gunnar Bengtsson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Long Ships written by Frans Gunnar Bengtsson and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frans Gunnar Bengtsson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 503 pages
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Download or read book The Long Ships written by Frans Gunnar Bengtsson and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : R. A. Fletcher
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1473383455
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In The Days Of The Tall Ships written by R. A. Fletcher and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1930, this is a wonderfully detailed look at the history of the Sailing Ship in the nineteenth century. Packed with photos and anecdotes, every major ship and Captain of the day is examined in depth. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Home Farm Books are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. Contents Include : Types of Ships The East Indiamen American Superiority and Atlantic Packets Navigation Laws, Utility Ships Opium and Tea Clippers Rushes To Californian and Australian Gold Fields, Some Fast Passages Wool, Wheat and Emigrant Ships Roaring Forties, Icebergs, Slow and Fast Passages, Etc Disasters, Rescues, Etc Life On A Sailing Ship

Author : Andrea Hopkins, Ph.D.
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780823958122
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Viking Longships written by Andrea Hopkins, Ph.D. and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2001-12-15 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Viking longships were wonders of shipbuilding.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rotarian written by and published by . This book was released on 1942-10 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established in 1911, The Rotarian is the official magazine of Rotary International and is circulated worldwide. Each issue contains feature articles, columns, and departments about, or of interest to, Rotarians. Seventeen Nobel Prize winners and 19 Pulitzer Prize winners – from Mahatma Ghandi to Kurt Vonnegut Jr. – have written for the magazine.

Author : Aram Goudsouzian
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807828434
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sidney Poitier written by Aram Goudsouzian and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life and career of Sidney Poitier are analyzed in this biography of the actor, highlighting his work as the only black leading man during the civil rights era and the honors he has received for his work for racial equality in Hollywood.

Author : John Haines
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135927693
Total Pages : 248 pages
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Download or read book Music in Films on the Middle Ages written by John Haines and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the role of music in the some five hundred feature-length films on the Middle Ages produced between the late 1890s and the present day. Haines focuses on the tension in these films between the surviving evidence for medieval music and the idiomatic tradition of cinematic music. The latter is taken broadly as any musical sound occurring in a film, from the clang of a bell off-screen to a minstrel singing his song. Medieval film music must be considered in the broader historical context of pre-cinematic medievalisms and of medievalist cinema’s main development in the course of the twentieth century as an American appropriation of European culture. The book treats six pervasive moments that define the genre of medieval film: the church-tower bell, the trumpet fanfare or horn call, the music of banquets and courts, the singing minstrel, performances of Gregorian chant, and the music that accompanies horse-riding knights, with each chapter visiting representative films as case studies. These six signal musical moments, that create a fundamental visual-aural core central to making a film feel medieval to modern audiences, originate in medievalist works predating cinema by some three centuries.

Author : Sarah Orne Jewett
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Normans written by Sarah Orne Jewett and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-03 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gulf stream flows so near to the southern coast of Norway, and to the Orkneys and Western Islands, that their climate is much less severe than might be supposed. Yet no one can help wondering why they were formerly so much more populous than now, and why the people who came westward even so long ago as the great Aryan migration, did not persist in turning aside to the more fertile countries that lay farther southward. In spite of all their disadvantages, the Scandinavian peninsula, and the sterile islands of the northern seas, were inhabited by men and women whose enterprise and intelligence ranked them above their neighbors. Now, with the modern ease of travel and transportation, these poorer countries can be supplied from other parts of the world. And though the summers of Norway are misty and dark and short, and it is difficult to raise even a little hay on the bits of meadow among the rocky mountain slopes, commerce can make up for all deficiencies. In early times there was no commerce except that carried on by the pirates—if we may dignify their undertakings by such a respectable name,—and it was hardly possible to make a living from the soil alone. The sand dunes of Denmark and the cliffs of Norway alike gave little encouragement to tillers of the ground, yet, in defiance of all our ideas of successful colonization, when the people of these countries left them, it was at first only to form new settlements in such places as Iceland, or the Faroë or Orkney islands and stormiest Hebrides.