Eric The Red: The Viking Adventurer (What's Their Story?)
Age 6 and up
Eric the Red was wild and hot-headed, even for a Viking. His quick temper was always getting him into trouble. But he learned quickly how to lead, and in time became a great warrior and a fearless adventurer. He discovered a new land--Greenland--and founded a new nation.
This revised and updated edition of Eyewitness Viking is an extraordinary guide to the legendary Scandinavian Vikings. Amazing colour photographs offer a unique eyewitness view of these incredible explorers, warriors, merchants and pirates. From the magnificent ships Vikings were buried in to the places where Viking traders found silk, spices and fur; let your child explore the story of the Vikings - their ships, weapons, legends and sagas of war and discovery. Great for projects or just for fun, children will learn everything they need to know about the Vikings.
Was Queen Matilda more important to William the Conqueror's reign than even he realized? Was Francis Walsingham a role model for future security chiefs? Was Alfred The Great a signifcant shaper of the Viking experience in the British Isles? Answers and more (such as rugby and war) in this edition of History.
Dark-Hunter: an immortal warrior who has traded his soul to Artemis for one moment of vengeance on his enemies. In return, they swear to spend eternity protecting mankind from the daimons and vampires that prey on them. Dark-Hunter Wulf is an ancient Viking warrior with a useful but extremely aggravating power - amnesia. No one who meets him in person can remember him five minutes later.
During the last two decades of her life, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis worked on nearly 100 books with varying degrees of responsibility as an editor, first at Viking--she resigned after being castigated by the New York Times about a Viking thriller with a Ted Kennedy–like protagonist as an assassination target--and then at Doubleday, which promised to avoid any similar embarrassments.
