Nancy Marie Brown
I like extremes: Science and sagas. Science and faith. History and fantasy. The Dark Ages and modern times. Fire and ice. My books combine extremes. They ask, What have we overlooked? What have we forgotten? What knowledge must not be lost? For 21 years, I worked as a science writer at a...
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I like extremes: Science and sagas. Science and faith. History and fantasy. The Dark Ages and modern times. Fire and ice. My books combine extremes. They ask, What have we overlooked? What have we forgotten? What knowledge must not be lost? For 21 years, I worked as a science writer at a university. Now I write from a farm in northern Vermont, where the days are quiet and cool. Four Icelandic horses graze outside my office window. Every few years I take an adventure--and write a book about it.
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'Ivory Vikings' tells the known story(ies) of the Lewis Chessmen, details Nordic/Atlantic style, the history of chess as it migrated from India, and covers the various theories regarding the origins of the Lewis Chessmen and offers speculations on those who likely commissioned and made them. This wa...
When ninety-three meticulously carved, 12th century, walrus ivory chessmen were discovered in the decidedly protestant sands of Scotland’s Isle of Lewis in 1831, a haul that included 16 alarmingly Catholic-looking bishops, no one knew where they had come from (Fairies?), and while we still aren’t su...
Disclaimer: ARC via Netgalley. I know very little about chess. I know how to play, I’m not very good, and I think some of the chess sets, the Lewis chessmen included, are awesome works of art. That’s about it. Oh, and I like the horses, and my favorite rooks are castles on eleph...
Amazing the books I run across. This was a delightful find, extremely well written with evocative images and pithy, humor-laden sentences: "My Icelandic was too rudimentary for that. It's a difficult language with an excess of grammar." and "The weather was classic Icelandic: forty degrees and rai...
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