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Ivory Vikings by Nancy Marie Brown 9781250108593
Booksplease Price: £14.48In the early 1800's, on a Hebridean beach in Scotland, the sea exposed an ancient treasure cache: 93 chessmen carved from walrus ivory. Norse netsuke, each face individual, each full of quirks, the... -
Ivory Vikings by Nancy Marie Brown 9781137279378
Booksplease Price: £24.02In the early 1800's, on a Hebridean beach in Scotland, the sea exposed an ancient treasure cache: 93 chessmen carved from walrus ivory. Norse netsuke, each face individual, each full of quirks, the... -
The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman by Nancy Marie Brown
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed off the edge of the known world. She landed in the New World and lived there for three years, giving birth to a baby before... -
The Valkyries: New & Ancient Norse Tales Nancy Marie Brown 9781835627907
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.26The Valkyries - fierce daughters of battle, riders of storm and shadow. They choose the slain and carry souls to glory, moving between mortal and divine. These fierce but angelic warrior goddesses... -
The Real Valkyrie: The Hidden History of Viking Warrior Women by Nancy Marie Brown
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.55In 2017, DNA tests revealed to the collective shock of many scholars that a Viking warrior in a high-status grave in Birka, Sweden, was actually a woman. The Real Valkyrie weaves together... -
Looking for the Hidden Folk: How Iceland's Elves Can Save the Earth by Nancy Marie Brown
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.50In exploring how Icelanders interact with nature-and their idea that elves live among us-Nancy Marie Brown shows us how altering our perceptions of the environment can be a crucial first step toward... -
Looking for the Hidden Folk: How Iceland's Elves Can Save the Earth by Nancy Marie Brown 9781639365746
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26*A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE*"An impassioned, informative love letter to Iceland." - New York Times Book Review " This compelling and highly readable book offers a thought-provoking... -
The Abacus and the Cross: The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages by Nancy Marie Brown 9780465031443
Booksplease Price: £20.82The medieval Catholic Church, widely considered a source of intolerance and inquisitorial fervor, was not anti-science during the Dark Ages,in fact, the pope in the year 1000 was the leading... -
Rough-Shooting Dog: Reflections From Thick And Uncivil Sorts Of Places Charles Fergus 9781592288571
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30A Rough-Shooting Dog is the compelling account of a man and his best friend--an English springer spaniel named Jenny. The author chronicles the training and first hunting season of his beloved canine... -
How Iceland Changed the World: The Big History of a Small Island by Egill Bjarnason
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'A joyously peculiar book' - The New York Times'A fascinating insight into Icelandic culture and a fresh perspective on her global influence. Warning: may well make readers wish they were Icelandic,... -
The Nine Keys of Icelandic Wisdom: Revelations from the Land of the Sagas Philippe Rosset 9798888503720
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.27A guide to uncovering your inner strength, ancestral clarity, and soulful presence* Presents 9 essential principles drawn from ancient Icelandic texts for cultivating a balanced, resilient, and... -
The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science by Seb Falk 9780393868401
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.84Soaring Gothic cathedrals, violent crusades, the Black Death: these are the dramatic forces that shaped the medieval era. But the so-called Dark Ages also gave us the first universities, eyeglasses,... -
The Light Ages: A Medieval Journey of Discovery by Seb Falk
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Chosen as a Book of the Year by The Times, Daily Telegraph, TLS, BBC History Magazine and Tablet'Compulsive, brilliantly clear and superbly well-written, it's a charismatic evocation of another... -
Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion by Nicholas Spencer 9780861547302
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.37Most things you 'know' about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth century and remain widespread today. 'A deeply researched history of the...