3,524円 Swedish filmmaker Roy Andersson’s celebrated and enigmatic film Songs from the Second Floor, his first feature film in twenty-five years, won the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000. The “songs” of the film’s title refer to Andersson’s artistic ruminations on the state of manki...

3,517円 Finalist for the 2017 Washington State Book Award in General Nonfiction / History The plaque said this was the winter fishing hut of Thurídur Einarsdóttir, one of Iceland's greatest fishing captains, and that she lived from 1777 to 1863. "Wait," anthropologist and former seawoman Margaret Willson...

99円 De invasie van De invasie van Denemarken (en Noorwegen) was de tweede na Polen. Het werd al sinds 1939 voorbereid door Hitler, als een nodige stap om de controle te krijgen over de Baltische Zee en de Noordzee tegen de Britten en geallieerde legers. Dit essay vat samen hoe de invasie gepland was ...

550円 These ballads convey a fantastic vision of the world as it was imagined in medieval Scandinavia, with monsters and magic intermingled with very human concerns of heroism, tragedy, love, and revenge. The great hero Sigurd is joined in this collection by troll-battling warriors including Holger Dan...

1,600円 Mit "Edda" werden zwei ganz unterschiedliche Sammlungen des 13. Jahrhunderts bezeichnet: die Lieder-Edda, eine Sammlung von Götter- und Heldenliedern, deren Stoffe (wie der vom Nibelungenuntergang) bis in die Völkerwanderungszeit zurückreichen können, sowie die sogenannte Prosa-Edda des isländisc...

2,312円 'The best new writer of fiction in America. The best.' – **John Irving 'The best thing a reviewer can do when faced with a novel of this calibre and breadth is to urge you to read it for yourselves.' – The Guardian** Nathan Hill's brilliant debut, The Nix, journeys from the rural Midwest of the 1...

1,600円 Zum Buch Mit den Wikingern verbindet man oft die Vorstellung von beutegierigen und trinkfesten Seeräubern. Rudolf Simek konfrontiert im vorliegenden Band diese und andere Gemeinplätze mit den Ergebnissen der neuesten Forschung und entwickelt so auf ebenso verständliche wie anschauliche Weise das ...

2,652円 The life story of Hans Jonathan, Iceland's first Black citizen. The island nation of Iceland is known for many thingsーmajestic landscapes, volcanic eruptions, distinctive seafoodーbut racial diversity is not one of them. So the little-known story of Hans Jonathan, a free Black man who lived and ...

4,227円 Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, women’s role in the Swedish economy was renegotiated and reconceptualized. Maria Agren chronicles changes in married women’s property rights, revealing the story of Swedish women’s property as not just a simple narrative of the erosion of legal ri...

1,856円 Discover the riveting true story of the 18th-century expedition that left only one survivor in this lost classic of adventure and travel writingーwith 33 drawings and maps. Arabia Felix is the spellbinding true story of a scientific expedition gone disastrously awry. On a winter morning in 1761 6...

1,723円 Hilarious tongue-in-cheek guide to the Danish "hygge" lifestyle. This book came about after a particularly hyggelig evening in December 2015. I had just lit my pleasing contemporary wood-burner and was sitting back, gløgg in hand, listening to Terj Dørk's classic drøn jazz album "Tepid in Taarstr...

2,536円 In the dying days of the eighth century, the Vikings erupted onto the international stage with brutal raids and slaughter. The medieval Norsemen may be best remembered as monk murderers and village pillagers, but this is far from the whole story. Throughout the Middle Ages, long-ships transported...