Civilisations
Laurent Binet, Sam Taylor

Civilisations
Laurent Binet, Sam Taylor
c.1000 AD: Erik the Red’s daughter heads south from Greenland
Civilisations is the world as we don’t know it: set at different points in history it links stories about characters in different places and times, all hungry to explore and to acquire power.
Freydis is a woman warrior and leader of a band of Viking explorers setting out southwards. They meet local tribes, exchange skills, are taken prisoner, and get as far as Panama. But nobody ultimately knows what became of them….
Civilisations is nothing less than a strangely believable counter-factual history of the modern world, fizzing with ideas about colonisation, empire-building and the eternal human quest for domination. It is an electrifying novel by one of Europe’s most exciting writers.
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