Legend of the Last Vikings - Taklamakan - The Viking Sagas BBC FOUR

Finalist ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award
Replace Indiana Jones' Fedora with a Helmet

and swap his bull-whip for a sword

but keep the leather Jacket

then add a dash of Romance

and you have

VIKING ACTION and ADVENTURE
from Norway along the Silk Route
into China's notorious Taklamakan desert
in the genre of Indiana Jones!

Synopsis: As the Viking age is brought to an end in 1066 with ignominious defeat at the battle of Stamford Bridge, a rag-..tag group of Vikings conclude the quiet life is not for them and they decide to go-..a-..Viking one last time.

They retrace a journey of their youth across the European Steppe and down the mighty Dniepr river Heading for Byzantium. A chance discovery in a Kiev library leads them to venture even further afield - to Astrakhan, across the Caspian sea, up the mighty Oxus river, through Parthia and Bactria and along the ancient Silk Route into Asia and Tian Xia (China) and the notorious Taklamakan desert -.. so called by local inhabitants because those who venture in, seldom venture out.

Engaged in a battle not of their choosing, they inflict fatalities on the sinister and evil Black Scorpions who want to exact their revenge. Pursued, they flee by night across the Roof of the World and meet the remnants of the "lost" European tribe of Asia, the Hepthalites, who offer them protection in their city, hidden in the Tien Shan -.. the Celestial Mountains. A place where romance is kindled and love unexpectedly blossoms.

During their winter sojourn in the Hidden City they gather more clues, and in the spring continue with their quest, on into the Taklamakan desert. More danger and peril lies in wait for this rag-..tag Viking crew as they travel along the Silk Route, the world's first super-..highway.

At the eastern end of their journey they meet the Lang Ren, the Wolf people of Lou Lan, outcasts thieves and criminals living in an abandoned city in the desert. A city without water. A city about to die. A city in which the final clue to their quest is uncovered.

What fate awaits this rejected element of Asian society? Can this motley crew intercede on their behalf? What will the outcome be?

Beautifully bound, this book is available in paperback and hardback with dustjacket.

US$1 from every copy sold will be donated to the Tearfund.

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