![]() The Far Traveler was her first book on the Vikings, and it offers a rather different perspective than most. Foolishly I didn’t buy it at the time – that was before King Hereafter and my current fascination with all things Viking – but it meant that her name rang a bell when I discovered this. This is the first of her books I’ve read although, earlier this year, I spotted a copy of her Song of the Vikingsin the Strand bookshop in New York. Her writing is consequently an appealing blend of specialist and enthusiast. Brown started out as a science writer, but she’s recently had the chance to return to her first love: Norse culture and mythology. ![]() ![]() ![]() I realised that I was going to get along rather well with Nancy Marie Brown when I read the opening sentence of her first chapter: ‘ The first time I saw a Viking ship in the water, I was struck with the desire to stow away on it‘. ![]()
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