Adventures in Time: Fury of The Vikings
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Published:5th Oct '23
Should be back in stock very soon
Take a journey to a vanished world with the ADVENTURES IN TIME series - stories so exciting you won't believe they're all true
Prepare to meet the most terrifying raiders the world has ever known, as historian Dominic Sandbrook plunges us back into the thrilling drama of the Viking Age. We'll encounter gods and giants, axemen and shield-maidens, from the warlords rampaging through King Alfred's England to the sea-captains who first glimpsed the mountains of Iceland. For even in the most glittering cities on earth, no one is safe from the Northmen's fury...
The Adventures in Time series brings the past alive for twenty-first century children. These stories are every bit as exciting as those of Harry Potter or Matilda Wormwood. The only difference is they actually happened...
Few plots can rival the real-life dramas played out in the superb Adventures in Time series by the historian Dominic Sandbrook, one of the most exciting new voices in children's non-fiction. * Daily Telegraph *
Many children will already be hooked on his brainy historical thrillers. The sixth in Dominic Sandbrook's Adventures in Time series introduces us to the scariest raiders of all as we meet Viking gods and giants, axemen and shield maidens. -- Alex O'Connell * The Times *
ISBN: 9780141999203
Dimensions: 198mm x 130mm x 20mm
Weight: 271g
368 pages