Who were the Norse gods
- the mighty Aesyr led by Odinn & the mysterious Vanir? In The Norse Myths we meet this passionate & squabbling
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Welcome to the NC500 This tourist route takes in over 500mi (900km) of some of the UK's most stunning scenery The North Coast ...

Guidebook to walking the North Downs Way National Trail a 130 mile (208km) trail between Farnham & Dover with an optional visit to Canterbury Following the ancient Pilgrim's Way for much of the way through pleasant countryside this is one of the easier National Trails & the walk is described over 11 stages With 125K OS map booklet ...

After raiding & exploring the North Sea with the acclaimed board game series the time has come to journey deeper into the world as a Viking warrior in The North Sea Epilogues roleplaying game Create heroes & set out to battle enemies uncover mysteries & gain reputation The possibilities are endless & the North Sea is waiting So ready the longboats & prepare to forge an exciting & epic saga! Features Narrative focus with less dice rolling & more story building Simple easily to follow rule set & intuitive hero sheets The GM never has to roll any dice Games have a natural flow with no need to constantly reference rulebooks Players are encouraged to inject their own elements into the story making for a more collaborative story telling experience ...

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN NOTABLE BOOK 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE 2017 -- Winner of the RSL Encore Award 2017 --A ship sets sail with a killer on board 1859 A man joins a whaling ship bound for the Arctic Circle Having left the British Army with his reputation in tatters Patrick Sumner has little option but to accept the position of ship's surgeon on this ill-fated voyage But when deep into the journey a cabin boy is discovered brutally killed Sumner finds himself forced to act Soon he will face an evil even greater than he had encountered at the siege of Delhi in the shape of Henry Drax harpooner murderer monster 'A tour de force' Hilary Mantel' Riveting & darkly brilliant' Colm Toibin ...

This guidebook is a comprehensive pocket-sized guide to walking the pilgrimage routes through northern Spain to the sacred city of Santiago de Compostela The Camino del Norte is an 817km five-week coastal route from the town of Irun close to the French border Its alternatives are the Camino Primitivo (which splits from the Norte near Oviedo for the next 355km) & the Camino Ingles (a five-day 116km route from the city of Ferrol on the north-west coast) The guide gives stage-by-stage descriptions to all three routes & to the Camino de Finisterre (a three-day extension route from Santiago to the west coast) It features lots of advice including recommended gear useful information on all available pilgrim hostels & an extensive glossary in English Spanish & Euskera The Camino Frances is often referred to as the Camino de Santiago but it is actually along with these Northern Caminos part of a network of routes As the Frances is so popular however the Northern Caminos offer ideal conditions They are popular enough to offer sufficient facilities clear waymarking & a pilgrim community while plentiful cheap accommodation means no need to race for a bed ...

The ' Northern Crusades' inspired by the Pope's call for a Holy War are less celebrated than those in the Middle East but they were also more successful vast new territories became & remain Christian such as Finland Estonia & Prussia Newly revised in the light of the recent developments in Baltic & Northern medieval research this authoritative overview provides a balanced & compelling account of a tumultuous era ...

The Northmen's Fury tells the Viking story from the first pinprick raids of the eighth century to the great armies that left their Scandinavian homelands to conquer larger parts of France Britain & Ireland It recounts the epic voyages that took them across the Atlantic to the icy fjords of Greenland & to North America over four centuries before Columbus & east to the great rivers of Russia & the riches of the Byzantine empire One summer's day in 793 death arrived from the sea The raiders who sacked the island monastery of Lindisfarne were the first Vikings sea-borne attackers who brought two centuries of terror to northern Europe Before long the sight of their dragon-prowed longships & the very name of Viking gave rise to fear & dread so much so that monks were reputed to pray each night for delivery from the Northmen's Fury' Yet for all their reputation as bloodthirsty warriors the Vikings possessed a sophisticated culture that produced art of great beauty literature of abiding power & kingdoms of surprising endurance The Northmen's Fury describes how & why a region at the edge of Europe came to dominate & to terrorise much of the rest of the continent for nearly three centuries & how in the end the coming of Christianity & the growing power of kings tempered the Viking ferocity & stemmed the tide of raids It relates the astonishing achievement of the Vikings in forging far-flung empires whose sinews were the sea & whose arteries were not roads but maritime trading routes The blood of the Vikings runs in millions of veins in Europe & the Americas & the tale of their conquests explorations & achievements continues to inspire people around the world ...

Published on the 150th anniversary of the establishment of the Dominion of Canada & the 70th anniversary of Canadian citizenship In 1862 Viscount Milton & Dr Cheadle set off west across North America to find a route that could be used to transport the riches of the British Columbia goldfields back to British territory in the east thus avoiding the middle man'
- the US Behind that simple description lies one of the great nineteenth-century adventures The expedition was ludicrously ill-prepared & yet was instrumental in bringing the railroad from the east & ensuring that British Columbia became part of the Canadian Confederation in 1871 & not part of the US Author (and Arctic expedition leader) Ernest Coleman has followed the entire route of these foolhardy but brave amateurs & describes it in spectacular detail It was the Northwest passage overland & not the elusive sea route that fixed the political map of North America
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The anthologies feature outstanding teaching pieces that reveal the sweep of history through changing genres styles conventions forms techniques & materials The Seventh Edition

Includes:: new twentieth- & twenty-first-century works by Adams Bernstein Carter Golijov Higdon Revueltas Saariaho Strauss & Villa-Lobos

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