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The Viking heart : how Scandinavians conquered the world by Arthur Herman; Kiff VandenHeuvel is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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"An absorbing and humane account . . . Mr. Herman is at pains to remind us that the Viking world was never just a stage for mayhem. It was, he says, 'about daring to reach for more than the universe had gifted you, no matter the odds and the obstacles.' In short: We might all take our own life's cue from the Viking heart."— The Wall Street Journal From a New York Times best-selling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist, a sweeping epic of how the Vikings and their descendants have shaped history and America Scandinavia has always been a world apart. For millennia Norwegians, Danes, Finns, and Swedes lived a remote and rugged existence among the fjords and peaks of the land of the midnight sun. But when they finally left their homeland in search of opportunity, these wanderers—including the most famous, the Vikings—would reshape Europe and beyond. Their ingenuity, daring, resiliency, and loyalty to family and community would propel them to the gates of Rome, the steppes of Russia, the courts of Constantinople, and the castles of England and Ireland. But nowhere would they leave a deeper mark than across the Atlantic, where the Vikings' legacy would become the American Dream. In T

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Arthur Herman; Kiff VandenHeuvel
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Published
2021
Language
EN
ISBN
9781328595201
Category
history
Subjects
History, Humanities
Rating
4.4 / 5 (512 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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