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Ivory Vikings: The Mystery of the M..., Brown, Marie, N
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- Ivory Vikings: The Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the Wor
- Book Title
- Ivory Vikings: The Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the Wor
- ISBN
- 1137279370
- EAN
- 9781137279378
- Binding
- Hardback
- Genre
- History
- Height
- 28.19
- Length
- 231.90
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- 166.88
- Release Title
- Ivory Vikings: The Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the Wor
- Artist
- Brown, Marie, Nancy
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- Publication Year
- 2015
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Ivory Vikings
- Item Height
- 241mm
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Item Width
- 163mm
- Subject
- Archaeology, History
- Item Weight
- 485g
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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In the early 1800s, 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 Lewis Chessmen are probably the most famous chess pieces in the world. Harry played Wizard's Chess with them in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Housed at the British Museum, they are among its most visited and beloved objects. Questions abounded: Who carved them? Where? Ivory Vikings explores these mysteries by connecting medieval Icelandic sagas with modern archaeology, art history, forensics, and the history of board games. In the process, Ivory Vikings presents a vivid history of the 400 years when the Vikings ruled the North Atlantic, and the sea-road connected countries and islands we think of as far apart and culturally distinct: Norway and Scotland, Ireland and Iceland, and Greenland and North America. The story of the Lewis chessmen explains the economic lure behind the Viking voyages to the west in the 800s and 900s. And finally, it brings from the shadows an extraordinarily talented woman artist of the twelfth century: Margret the Adroit of Iceland.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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9781137279378
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Ivory Vikings
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Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Archaeology, History
Publication Year
2015
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Textbook
Number of Pages
288 Pages
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241mm
Item Width
163mm
Item Weight
485g
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United Kingdom
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