[PDF.60wh] Ivory Vikings: The Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the World and the Woman Who Made Them

Ivory Vikings: The Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the World and the Woman Who Made Them

[PDF.oj56] Ivory Vikings: The Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the World and the Woman Who Made Them

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||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| Unfocused effort|By David W. Maxey|A fascinating find -- the chess pieces, and their discovery and significance as artifact deserve full exploration. I found this work, however, too spread out in elaborating on Icelandic sagas and locations and personages that might have conceivable connection with the Lewis chess figures. The author brings a great deal of knowledge and lingu| ||"Intriguing." ―New In Chess|"Full of exciting detective work, along with absorbing excursions into the history of the Vikings, of chess in the Middle Ages, and of walrus ivory (known as “arctic gold”)." ―The New Yorker|“A f

In the early 1800's, on a Hebridean beach in Scotland, the sea exposed an ancient treasure cache: 93 chessmen carved from walrus ivory. Norse netsuke, each face individual, each full of quirks, the Lewis Chessmen are probably the most famous chess pieces in the world. Harry played Wizard's Chess with them in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Housed at the British Museum, they are among its most visited and beloved objects.

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You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Ivory Vikings: The Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the World and the Woman Who Made Them   |  Nancy Marie Brown. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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