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The Best and Worst Jobs: Anglo-Saxon and Viking Times Clive Gifford

The Best and Worst Jobs: Anglo-Saxon and Viking Times By Clive Gifford

The Best and Worst Jobs: Anglo-Saxon and Viking Times by Clive Gifford


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Summary

Gives a unique perspective on history by looking at the jobs of a range of people, rich and poor, skilled and unskilled, in each period

The Best and Worst Jobs: Anglo-Saxon and Viking Times Summary

The Best and Worst Jobs: Anglo-Saxon and Viking Times by Clive Gifford

If you enjoy reading about the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings, especially about the grim and gory aspects of each era, this is the book for you! What sort of work could job-hunters in Anglo-Saxon and Viking Times expect to find? An Anglo-Saxon might become a monk, painstakingly copying out manuscripts by hand and fending off attacks from ferocious Viking invaders, or a nettle collector, pounding stinging nettles to release their flax-like fibres and boiling them to make a medicinal tea. What were the pay and conditions like for a cook or a charm-maker in Anglo-Saxon and Viking Times? Which were the most dangerous jobs and which the most high status? The book is illustrated throughout with photos of artefacts from the period from the Art Archive and complemented by quirky and humorous but historically accurate drawings by Alex Paterson.

About Clive Gifford

Clive Gifford is the author of more than 150 children's books including Eye Benders, winner of the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize, Royal Society-nominated Out of This World and Cool Technology which won the School Library Association Information Book Award. His book, The Colours of History, won the Blue Peter Book Awards' Best Book With Facts. He has travelled through 70 countries, run a computer games company and taken part in all manner of sports from parachuting and gliding to Ultimate Frisbee. Clive's official website can be found at www.clivegifford.co.uk

Table of Contents

  • 1: Introduction
  • 2: Farmer
  • 3: Monk
  • 4: Illuminator and Nettle collector
  • 5: Anglo-Saxon king
  • 6: Egg collector and Corn grinder
  • 7: Metalworker and Mint worker
  • 8: Cook
  • 9: Viking raider
  • 10: Jarl
  • 11: Viking trader
  • 12: Jeweller and Charm maker
  • 13: Viking explorer
  • 14: Quiz
  • 15: Glossary
  • 16: Index

Additional information

GOR009017255
9781526300294
152630029X
The Best and Worst Jobs: Anglo-Saxon and Viking Times by Clive Gifford
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Hachette Children's Group
20170914
32
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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