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The Vikings
- Author
- David Angus
- Narrator
- Joe Marsh
- Publisher
- Naxos AudioBooks
- Publish Date
- 1 May 2011
- Run Time
- 2 hours 25 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Critics Review
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This entertaining and informative account was written especially for Naxos AudioBooks by David Angus, author of Great Explorers of the World, Great Inventors and other spoken word histories.
www.emotionallyfourteen.com
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Vikings have always fascinated children and David Angus’s The Vikings makes terrific and exciting listening, telling the truth about them, which the Christian monks, writing at the time of Viking raiding, certainly didn’t. And no, they didn’t run around wearing horned helmets either – that was 19th-century imaginings!
Kati Nicholl, Daily Express
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It wasn’t an empire in Roman, Mongolian or British terms of permanence and civilisation, but the Vikings who rowed in open boats to their settlements in North America and Russia, Iceland and Byzantium, were surely the world’s toughest expansionists. History, culture, exploits, mythology, it’s all here.
Sue Arnold, Guardian
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Superbly narrated by Joe Marsh, The Vikings by David Angus is specifically appropriate for young listeners as they learn about the history, culture, myths, legends, personalities, explorations, and accomplishments of the Danes, Swedes, and Norwegians that are collectively referred to as the ’Vikings’ and who were the scourge of Europe from the 8th to the 11th centuries A.D. Technically flawless, this 2 disc recording features the individual chapters being separated by a thematically appropriate and concise musical interlude. As entertaining as it is informative, The Vikings is a very highly recommended listen and will prove to be an enduringly popular addition to family, school, and community library audio book collections.
Children’s Bookwatch, Midwest Book Review
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Finally, I loved Joe Marsh’s reading of David Angus’s The Vikings. With zip and panache, it tells of the formidable men who spent all summer ’a-Viking’ (like ’a-monstering’, it’s apparently a present participle) throughout the known world, and collecting hoards of wealth to bury back home. And all winter carousing, and occasionally slaughtering each other, in vast great halls in the frozen north. You couldn’t make it up.
Sue Gaisford, Independent on Sunday
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Details
- Author
- David Angus
- Narrator
- Joe Marsh
- Duration
- 2 hours 25 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 May 2011
- ISBN
- 9781843794875
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Naxos AudioBooks
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage general interest: History and the past
Synopsis
Between the eighth and eleventh centuries Vikings stormed out of their Scandinavian homelands to raid and loot along the coasts of Europe. In old Norse to ‘go a’viking’ meant to take to sea in a long ship for an adventure. Sometimes this was a trading trip, sometimes a piratical raid. Often it was both. Explorers and traders, warriors and poets, they ranged between Byzantium in the south and Iceland, and even North America, in the North. Their fame lives on.
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