Books with title Last of the Vikings

Traveling to the land of eternal youth was the only way J.J. Liddy could stop time from leaking from his world to T'ir na n'Og. But fifteen years after returning from the land of the faeries, J.J. wonders if that long-ago visit is responsible for the strange things now happening to those around him. Why does his daughter Jenny roam barefoot through the wilds, when she should be in school? When did the mysterious white goat begin to patrol the hillside? What is the secret project that J.J.'s son Donal is attempting? And who is the ghost guarding the stone beacon at the top of the mountain—and why has Jenny befriended him? Finding answers to these questions will take J.J. and his family on the most important and dangerous journey of their lives. If they fail, it will undo all the good that J.J. accomplished fifteen years ago. But if they succeed, they will defeat the forces that are gathering to destroy all of mankind, and finally secure the future of the last of the high kings.

The How We Know About series explores past civilizations with an emphasis on archaeological record. In The Vikings, each double-page spread looks at an important part of the Vikings' way of life and illustrates key evidence - artifacts, arts, crafts and written sources - that enables us to reconstruct and understand their ships, buildings, clothes, jewelry, and everyday life:•Watch a sleek dragon ship raiding deep into foreign lands.•Visit a bustling Viking longhouse and a master smith's workshop.•Learn how the Vikings landed in North America 400 years before Columbus.•Witness the last battle of a fierce Viking chieftain.

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.