A Dream of Dragons A Saga in Verse

by Lange, Willem; Azarian, Mary

• ISBN13: 9781593730895
• ISBN10: 1593730896
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-04-16
• Publisher: Bunker Hill Publishing Inc

Summary

The Viking Age began over a thousand years ago when the ancient Norse perfected their ocean-going dragon-headed long ships. Young men, and later whole families, left Norway¿s rugged fjords in search of open land, trade, treasure, and more. Many others took to the unknown seas simply because something vague and irresistible beckoned them. They settled islands all across the North Atlantic and landed in North America over four hundred years before Columbus their exploits for ever remembered in the ancient Norse sagas. A Dream of Dragons is a beautifully illustrated modern Norse saga written with all the power of Melville and Hemingway and a true story now retold in the ageless rhythms of blank verse as irresistible as they are beautiful.

Author Biography

Willem Lange is a short-story writer, commentator and host on Vermont Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Television. He also has a weekly column in The Valley News, the major newspaper in the NH/VT Upper Valley area. In addition to the Yuletide readings of his Christmas story, Favor Johnson, a staple on Public Radio for fifteen years, his annual readings of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol -- on stage, on Vermont Public Radio, and on Armed Forces Radio overseas -- have been popular since the 1970s.

Mary Azarian has illustrated over 40 books, including Snowflake Bentley which won the Caldecott Award. Mary Azarian moved to a small hill farm in northern Vermont in 1963. vegetable and flower garden. These years on the farm became the basis for the subjects she has chosen to depict in her woodcut prints. In 1969, she started Farmhouse Press and began producing woodcut prints, first printing by hand and eventually printing on a 19th century Vanderhook proof press.