THE NORTHMEN’ S FURY: A HISTORY OF THE VIKING WORLD
Book ID/图书代码： 11701213B66885
English Summary/英文概要： The Northmen’s Fury tells the Viking story, from the first pinprick raids of the 8th century to the great armies that left their Scandinavian homelands to conquer larger parts of France, Britain and Ireland. It recounts the epic voyages that took them across the Atlantic to the icy fjords of Greenland and to North America over four centuries before Columbus and east to the great rivers of Russia and the riches of the Byzantine empire.
One summer’s day in 793, death arrived from the sea. The raiders who sacked the island monastery of Lindisfarne were the first Vikings, sea-borne attackers who brought two centuries of terror to northern Europe. Before long the sight of their dragon-prowed longships and the very name of Viking became objects of fear and dread, so much so that monks were reputed to pray each night for delivery from ’the Northmen’s Fury’. Yet for all their reputation as bloodthirsty warriors, the Vikings possessed a sophisticated culture that produced art of great beauty, literature of abiding power and kingdoms of surprising endurance.
The Northmen’s Fury describes how and why a region at the edge of Europe came to dominate and to terrorise much of the rest of the continent for nearly three centuries and how, in the end, the coming of Christianity and the growing power of kings tempered the Viking ferocity and stemmed the tide of raids. It relates the astonishing achievement of the Vikings in forging far-flung empires whose sinews were the sea and whose arteries were not roads but maritime trading routes.
Far more than mere raiders, the blood of the Vikings runs in millions of veins in Europe and the Americas and the tale of their conquests, explorations and achievements continues to inspire many more.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《北方人的愤怒》讲述了海盗的故事，从第八个世纪的第一场针刺袭击到使得他们的斯堪的纳维亚家园打败大部分法国、英国和爱尔兰军队的庞大军队。它讲述了带领读者越过大西洋到达格陵兰岛的冰峡湾，和哥伦布四个多世纪前的北美，和俄罗斯伟大河流的东部以及拜占庭帝国财富的史诗般的航行。
1793年的一个夏天，死神降临在大海。袭击了马林迪斯的岛上修道院的攻击者是第一个海盗，海上袭击者给欧洲北部的民众带来了长达两个世纪的恐怖袭击。很快，他们画着龙的长船和海盗的名字变成了害怕和恐惧的代名词，所以僧人每个夜晚都祈祷诉说“北方人”的愤怒。然而，虽然他们都被称作嗜血战士，维京人有着复杂的文化，产生了美的艺术，持久力量的文学和惊人耐力的王国。
《北方人的愤怒》讲述了如何以及为什么近三个世纪来欧洲的边缘地区要来主宰和恐吓大陆的其他国家，以及最后，基督教的到来和国王日益增加的权力是如何缓和维京人的残忍和遏制袭击浪潮的。讲述了维京人锻造广阔帝国的惊人成就，他们的命脉是大海，他们的动脉不是道路而是海上贸易路线。
远不止单纯的袭击，维京人的血在欧洲和美洲数以百万计的静脉中运行，这是关于他们征服，探索和取得成就以及不断激励更多的故事。(LNL)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 菲利普•帕克1965年出生于利物浦。在去英国外交部工作之前，他在剑桥大学的“三一学堂”学习历史，在霍普金斯大学高级国际研究学院学习国际关系。他对古代和中世纪的政治和军事系统特别感兴趣。他是《帝国在这里停留：沿着罗马世界的边境旅游》（2009）的作者。作为一个出版商，他经营的时代书籍列表，包括关于古代文明和世界时代史的作品。
Philip Parker was born in Liverpool in 1965. He studied history at Trinity Hall, Cambridge and International Relations at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Bologna, Italy before working in the British Diplomatic Service. He has a particular interest in ancient and medieval political and military systems. He is the author of THE EMPIRE STOPS HERE: A Journey along the Frontiers of the Roman World (2009). As a publisher he ran the Times books list, including works on Ancient Civilizations and The Times History of the World.
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Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：SOLD
Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：AVAILABLE
Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：UK: Cape (pub Feb 2014)
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