A comprehensive and thrilling history of the Vikings for fans of the History Channel series, soon to return for its fifth season From Harald Bluetooth to Cnut the Great, the feared …
A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist "Extraordinary...Sensitive and perceptive, Mr. Hessler is a superb literary archaeologist, one who handles what he sees with a bit of …
"A revelation of the drive and creative flux of the metropolis over time."--Nature A sweeping history of cities through the millennia--from Mesopotamia to Manhattan--and how they …
