The Viking Life series explores the everyday lives of people who lived during the Viking era. This title looks at the Vikings built and travelled in longships and other forms of transport across water and land. It describes how the Vikings' use of transport enabled them to carry out raiding and trading expeditions and examines evidence ship burials.

 

This is volume 4 in Viking Life .

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2013 by Hachette Children's Group .

Nicola Barber is an experienced author and editor of children's non-fiction books.

This book has the following chapters:

• 1: The Viking world
• 2: Sea routes
• 3: Viking longships
• 4: Other ships
• 5: Life at sea
• 6: River transport
• 7: Trade networks
• 8: Birka: a trading centre
• 9: Land transport
• 10: Skiing and sledging
• 11: Ship burials
• 12: Timeline
• 13: Glossary
• 14: Index and resources