Take a journey to a vanished world with the ADVENTURES IN TIME series stories so exciting you wont believe theyre all true Prepare to meet the most terrifying raiders the world has ever known as historian Dominic Sandbrook plunges us back into the thrilling drama of the Viking Age. Well encounter gods and giants axemen and shieldmaidens from the warlords rampaging through King Alfreds England to the seacaptains who first glimpsed the mountains of Iceland. For even in the most glittering cities on earth no one is safe from the Northmens fury...The Adventures in Time series brings the past alive for twentyfirst century children. These stories are every bit as exciting as those of Harry Potter or Matilda Wormwood. The only difference is they actually happened...