Cat Jarman
Autor(a) de River Kings: A New History of Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road
About the Author
Obras por Cat Jarman
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1982
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- Norway
- Ocupações
- archaeologist (bioarchaeologist)
Membros
Críticas
An interesting way of interpreting Viking history, by tracing the route a traded item likely took to reach its found location. The analysis of the trading posts it would’ve transited along the way reads like a murder mystery. I enjoyed going along as the puzzle was unraveled.
An interesting way of interpreting Viking history, by tracing the route a traded item likely took to reach its final location. The analysis of the trading posts it would’ve transited along the way reads like a murder mystery. I enjoyed going along as the puzzle was unraveled.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 3
- Membros
- 409
- Popularidade
- #59,484
- Avaliação
- 4.1
- Críticas
- 14
- ISBN
- 20
- Línguas
- 3
Elsewhere much of the more generic, "usual" Viking material brings the book a little too close to yet another of the many annoyingly thematic - as opposed to chronological - general intros to the Viking age. Merely here with a cleverer & fresher organising theme.
The title however, River Kings, is also top-notch. Indeed I wish the author had spent still more time elaborating her exactly correct insistence that mastery of river navigation, both in the West & East, remain the missing, because even now too underexposed, key to Viking strategy, expansion, & success.… (mais)