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Roman Britain and Early England: 55 B.C.-A.D. 871

8 best books like Roman Britain and Early England: 55 B.C.-A.D. 871 (Peter Hunter Blair): J.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England, Mortality, In Search of the Dark Ages, Farmer Giles of Ham/The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Vikings, The Vikings, Stillhet i støyens tid. Gleden ved å stenge verden ute

J.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
AuthorJ.R.R. Tolkien
ISBN0345538374
This four-volume, boxed set contains J.R.R. Tolkien's epic masterworks The Hobbit and the three volumes of The Lord of the Rings (The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King).

In The Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins is whisked away from his comfortable, unambitious life in Hobbiton...
Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England
AuthorJudith Flanders
ISBN0393327639
Nineteenth-century Britain was then the world's most prosperous nation, yet Victorians would bury meat in earth and wring sheets out in boiling water with their bare hands. Such drudgery was routine for the parents of people still living, but the knowledge of it has passed as if it had never been.

Following...
Mortality
AuthorChristopher Hitchens
ISBN1455502758
On June 8, 2010, while on a book tour for his bestselling memoir, Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens was stricken in his New York hotel room with excruciating pain in his chest and thorax. As he would later write in the first of a series of award-winning columns for "Vanity Fair," he suddenly found himself...
In Search of the Dark Ages
AuthorMichael Wood
ISBN0563522763
This edition of Michael Wood's groundbreaking first book explores the fascinating and mysterious centuries between the Romans and the Norman Conquest of 1066. In Search of the Dark Ages vividly conjures up some of the most famous names in British history, such as Queen Boadicea, leader of a terrible...
Farmer Giles of Ham/The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
AuthorJ.R.R. Tolkien
ISBN0048231258
If you are looking for a short, humble, fantasy story then Farmer Giles of Ham is your man. This is about a Farmer who becomes a hero after "defeating" a giant. Soon after, word of Farmer Giles of Ham's courage spreads and his life will never be the same again. This story is not connected with Lord of the Rings...
The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Vikings
AuthorJohn Haywood
ISBN0140513280
Viking marauders in their longships burst through the defences of ninth-century Europe, striking terror into the hearts of peasants and rulers alike for two centuries. But the Vikings were more than just marine warriors and this atlas shows their development as traders and craftsmen, explorers,...
The Vikings
AuthorElse Roesdahl
ISBN0140252827
Far from being just 'wild, barbaric, axe-wielding pirates', the Vikings created complex social institutions, oversaw the coming of Christianity to Scandinavia and made a major impact on European history through trade, travel and far-flung consolidation. This encyclopedic study brings together...
Stillhet i støyens tid. Gleden ved å stenge verden ute
AuthorErling Kagge
ISBN8248918726
Behind a cacophony of traffic noise, iPhone alerts and our ever-spinning thoughts, an elusive notion - silence - lies in wait. But what really is silence? Where can it be found? And why is it more important now than ever?

Erling Kagge, the Norwegian adventurer and polymath, once spent 50 days...
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