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Condition
VERY GOOD: The book's spine, pages, and covers are in excellent condition.
Product Details
This is a beautiful full-color presentation of Viking history, edited by William W. Fitzhugh and Elisabeth I. Ward, and published by the Smithsonian Institution Press.
Over 30 scholars contributed to its content.
The Table of Contents
- Preface (Hillary Rodham Clinton)
- Puffins, Ringed Pins, and Runestones: The Viking Passage to America (William W. Fitzhugh)
- Viking Homelands: Scandinavia in the Viking Age
- Viking Raiders: The Viking Age in Europe
- Vikings in the North Atlantic: Sagas of Western Expansion
- Viking America: 1000 A.D.: East Meets West
- Norse Greenland: From Vikings to Norseman
- Viking Legacy: Celebrating the Viking Millennium in America
The book also contains a list of contributors, a bibliography, acknowledgments, a list of institutions that lent to the Smithsonian exhibit, a checklist, and an index.