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  The Vikings

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  The Vikings by Frank R Donovan   At the height of their power in the ninth and tenth centuries, the Vikings seemed invincible-- conquering well-armed warriors whose ships were the ultimate in seafaring technology. From island bases near the deltas of major rivers, they used the waterways to scour the countryside, looting and burning towns, plundering merchant shipments, and stripping churches and monasteries of their gold, silver, and jewelled treasures. The Norsemen eventually penetrated all of England and Scotland, founded cities in Ireland, gained a powerful province in France, controlled Frisia and the modern Netherlands, and raided lands around Spain, passing into the Mediterranean to attack Italy and North Africa. They established the first Russian kingdom, challenged Constantinople, and provided a personal guard for the Byzantine emperor. They settled Iceland, where they developed Europe's first republic, founded two colonies on Greenland, and explored parts of North America five centuries before Christopher Columbus landed in the Americas. Then, like the abrupt end of a summer thunderstorm, their adventures ceased.   Specifications Artist/ Author:  Frank R Donovan Condition: Used, Excellent condition, no marks or writing, images of actual book. Format: Hardcover Publication date: 1964, Vintage Number of Pages:  152 Publisher: American Heritage Publishing Co. Inc, New York Dimensions: H26.2cm x W18.4cm x D2.3cm, approximately  

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  Philosophy in the Tragic Ages of the Greeks

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  Philosophy in the Tragic Ages of the Greeks by Friedrich Nietzsche   For Nietzsche the Age of Greek Tragedy was indeed a tragic age. He saw in it the rise and climax of values so dear to him that their subsequent drop into catastrophe (in the person of Socrates - Plato) was clearly foreshadowed as though these were events taking place in the theatre. And so in this work, unpublished in his own day but written at the same time that his The Birth of Tragedy had so outraged the German professoriate as to imperil his own academic career, his most deeply felt task was one of education. He wanted to present the culture of the Greeks as a paradigm to his young German contemporaries who might thus be persuaded to work toward a state of culture of their own; a state where Nietzsche found sorely missing.   Specifications Artist/ Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Condition: Used, VGC, no marks or writing. Images of actual book. Format: Paperback Publication date: 1998 Number of Pages: 132 ISBN: 9780895267108 Publisher: Regency Publishing Inc. Dimensions: H20.8cm x W13.8cm x D0.7cm, approximately  

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