Victoria Clark

The Far-Farers (eBook, ePUB)

A Journey from Viking Iceland to Crusader Jerusalem

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Just before the year 1000 a young Viking named Thorvald the Far-farer turned his back on the pagan gods of his fathers to preach the Christian gospel, travelling to Jerusalem, the golden heart of all medieval world maps. A thousand years later Victoria Clark retraces his epic voyage to discover how the dramatic events of Thorvald's Europe still resonate today. This is a compelling, highly acclaimed blend of history and travel, in the manner of William Dalrymple's bestselling From the Holy Mountain.

'Deeply engaging . . . The author's great sensitivity shines as brightly as ever it did in Why Angels Fall'

Independent on Sunday

'She writes books whose ambition and impressiveness must leave most of her journalist friends ill with envy'

Financial Times

'Entertaining, instructive and relevant'

Sunday Times Book of the Week

'I read every word of it, and went back over some of the chapters and read them again for sheer pleasure. A triumph'

John Cornwell, author of Hitler's Pope

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pan Macmillan
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781447204879
• Artikelnr.: 39924211

Autorenporträt

Victoria Clark worked for the Observer in Romania, the former Yugoslavia and Russia from 1990 to 1996, reporting the Croatian, Bosnian and first Chechen wars. Her first book, Why Angels Fall, was published in 2000 to great acclaim, followed by The Far-Farers in 2003.