From Mist and Stone: The Folklore of the Celts and Vikings

By George W. Stone

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792238176
• ISBN13: 9780792238171
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: National Geographic
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A swell book from a new author

This book is lively and engaging. The author is able to put together an unlikely combination of cultures and spin a page-turning historical tale replete with fascinating detail and images. It's a great read: swift, entertaining, poetic, at turn humorous and gory. I highly recommend it.

Quite an astonishing historical survey

I read a dozen books a month, but this swift, slim volume captured my attention immediately and never let it go. George Stone thoughtfully and economically reviews centuries of Celtic and Nordic cultural development, touching on the emergence of these "barbarian" peoples and tracking their countless accomplishments as they made their way across Europe and around the world. Celts in Iceland? Vikings in the Middle East? America discovered ages before Columbus? Warp spasms, silver hoards, Tolkien? The breadth of this book is simply astonishing. The author's use of literary genius, from Greek and Roman records (including notes by Strabo and Caesar) to Celtic and Nordic epics and sagas adds richness and incomparable depth to this wondrously illustrated volume. The National Geographic Society-and the title's young author-are to be commended. This is the best book I've read all year.