In Search Of The Dark Ages - Softcover

Wood, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0563205512 ISBN 13: 9780563205517

Publisher: Facts on File, 1987

Synopsis

Includes a genealogy table, and chapters on Boadicea, King Arthur, The Sutton Hoo Man, Offa, Alfred the Great, Athelstan, Eric Bloodaxe, Ethelred the Unready and William the Conqueror. It's illustrated.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Reflecting the style of his PBS-TV In Search Of series (but without a television tie-in), Wood's carefully researched foray into early medieval Britain sifts a number of unresolved mysteries. Among them are the questions: Does archeological evidence support the theory that the real King Arthur was a British resistance hero who fought Germanic tribes around 540 A.D.? Is the Sutton Hoo grave in East Anglia the burial site of a dead king? What motivated warrior queen Boadicea to poison herself when the Romans crushed the uprising she led? Wood writes with grace and conversational verve as he incorporates the latest findings. He humanizes some of the most uninspiring or obscure figures in British history, including Ethelred the Unready; Eric Bloodaxe, ruler of Viking York; Anglo-Saxon imperialist king Offa, who staged a coup d'etat; and Alfred the Great, pioneer of town planning. History Book Club selection; BOMC alternate.
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Review:

"In Search of the Dark Ages, Michael Wood wrote the book for history on TV." * The Times * "Michael Wood is the maker of some of the best TV documentaries ever made on history and archaeology." * Times Literary Supplement *

About this edition

• Publisher: Facts on File
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0563205512
• ISBN 13: 9780563205517
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 250