The Far-Farers
A Journey from Viking Iceland to Cr
Published on 3. January 2003
Book
Hardback
480 pages
978-0-333-90219-6 (ISBN)
Description
Just before the year 1000 AD a young Viking named Thorvald the Far-farer turned his back on the pagan gods of his father to preach the Christian gospel. But his Icelandic countrymen mocked him as a homosexual, stoned him and finally outlawed him. Abandoning his homeland, Thorvald embarked on an epic journey to the golden heart of all medieval world maps - Jerusalem. A 1000 years later, in the year 2000, Victoria Clark embarked on the same journey to discover to what extent the dramatic changes and conflicts sweeping Western Europe a 1000 years ago still resonate today. "The Far-Farers" is both the story of this 21st century journey and a history of 11th century western Christendom.
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'A triumph.' John CornwellMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pan Macmillan
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 40 mm
Weight
832 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-90219-6 (9780333902196)
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Person
An award-winning journalist, Victoria Clark worked for the Observer in Romania, in the former Yugoslavia during the wars in Croatia and Bosnia, and in Moscow from 1993 to 1996. Her first book, Why Angels Fall, was published by Macmillan to great critical acclaim in 2000.