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Andy*

Andy*

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Just dropped by to say "Hi"...
So new to the the forum, but not new to reading.
I grew up in a home full of books and two parents who gave me the love of reading.
Book genres that I enjoy the most are :
History , specifically Western Fur trade , Viking and Anglo-Saxon histories / Mythology , Sea-faring tales , Unit studies of various conflicts.
Science Fiction and some Fantasy.
And some Historical Fiction / Westerns.

Some things never change , I still have a home full of books and do my best to share my passion for reading with others....
Looking forward to being a part of this forum / community.
Andy
 
Andy* said:
Just dropped by to say "Hi"...
So new to the the forum, but not new to reading.
I grew up in a home full of books and two parents who gave me the love of reading.
Book genres that I enjoy the most are :
History , specifically Western Fur trade , Viking and Anglo-Saxon histories / Mythology , Sea-faring tales , Unit studies of various conflicts.
Science Fiction and some Fantasy.
And some Historical Fiction / Westerns.

Some things never change , I still have a home full of books and do my best to share my passion for reading with others....
Looking forward to being a part of this forum / community.
Andy
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Andy* said:
Just dropped by to say "Hi"...
So new to the the forum, but not new to reading.
I grew up in a home full of books and two parents who gave me the love of reading.
Book genres that I enjoy the most are :
History , specifically Western Fur trade , Viking and Anglo-Saxon histories / Mythology , Sea-faring tales , Unit studies of various conflicts.
Science Fiction and some Fantasy.
And some Historical Fiction / Westerns.

Some things never change , I still have a home full of books and do my best to share my passion for reading with others....
Looking forward to being a part of this forum / community.
Andy
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Andy* said:
Thank you very much for the welcome regdog!
Andy
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Andy,
welcome. You seem to share quite a few of my reading interests. (e.g. History, especially Medieval and
Early Modern, but I know very little about the fur trade. Any suggestions?) Historical Fiction,
the whole stretch, Roman to Victorian. Mythology. Vikings? Do you have/have you read Philip Line:
The Vikings and their Enemies, Gwyn Jones: A History of the Vikings, P.G. Foote and D.M. Wilson:
The Viking Achievement, Jonathan Clements: A Brief History of the Vikings, The Last Pagans or
the First Modern Europeans? Also the Civil War. (Which one do I mean? Guess, anybody. Actually,
I have, and read books on at least three different ones.) And can you give some of your favorite
authors of Historical Fiction?
Anyway, welcome again.

P.S. I have no idea why there are two copies of your post plus more stuff
at the beginning of my post. I am rather technologically "limited" and
computers are not co-operative with me.
 
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Thank you for the welcome colinglithero,
No worries on being technologically "limited".... I am as well .
I don't even have a cell phone and we know that computers will never catch on... :)

As for Western Fur Trade histories to start with I like to suggest:
Across The Wide Missouri by Bernard DeVoto
A History of the American Fur Trade of the Far West by Hiram Martin Chittenden
A Majority of Scoundrels by Don Berry
When skins were money : A History Of The Fur Trade by James A. Hanson
The above are all good general background histories of the fur trade.
I do like reading actual accounts of the fur trade and I have shelves full of those...
Vikings ,
Yes I have read Jones and Foote / Wilson and enjoyed their works.
Jones's The North Atlantic Saga is worth searching out , if you haven't read it.
The Vikings in Britain By H.R. Lyon is a good , if general read on the subject.
Harold The Last Anglo-Saxon King by Ian W. Walker and BloodFeud , Murder and Revenge in Anglo Saxon England by Richard Fletcher , are good reads as well.
And of course the old stand by's:
Anglo-Saxon England by Stenton And
A History of the Anglo-Saxons By Hodgkin.
Both are a bit dated now , but well worth searching out and reading.

For Historical Fiction I like:
Parke Godwin's Sherwood and Tower of Beowulf
Frans Bengtsson's The Long Ships
And just to shift gears and get some humor in my history : Doctor Dogbody's Leg , by James Norman Hall.
Andy
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Andy* said:
Thank you for the welcome colinglithero,
No worries on being technologically "limited".... I am as well .
I don't even have a cell phone and we know that computers will never catch on... :)

As for Western Fur Trade histories to start with I like to suggest:
Across The Wide Missouri by Bernard DeVoto
A History of the American Fur Trade of the Far West by Hiram Martin Chittenden
A Majority of Scoundrels by Don Berry
When skins were money : A History Of The Fur Trade by James A. Hanson
The above are all good general background histories of the fur trade.
I do like reading actual accounts of the fur trade and I have shelves full of those...
Vikings ,
Yes I have read Jones and Foote / Wilson and enjoyed their works.
Jones's The North Atlantic Saga is worth searching out , if you haven't read it.
The Vikings in Britain By H.R. Lyon is a good , if general read on the subject.
Harold The Last Anglo-Saxon King by Ian W. Walker and BloodFeud , Murder and Revenge in Anglo Saxon England by Richard Fletcher , are good reads as well.
And of course the old stand by's:
Anglo-Saxon England by Stenton And
A History of the Anglo-Saxons By Hodgkin.
Both are a bit dated now , but well worth searching out and reading.

For Historical Fiction I like:
Parke Godwin's Sherwood and Tower of Beowulf
Frans Bengtsson's The Long Ships
And just to shift gears and get some humor in my history : Doctor Dogbody's Leg , by James Norman Hall.
Andy
Edit for pre-coffee typing
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Andy* said:
Thank you for the welcome colinglithero,
No worries on being technologically "limited".... I am as well .
I don't even have a cell phone and we know that computers will never catch on... :)

As for Western Fur Trade histories to start with I like to suggest:
Across The Wide Missouri by Bernard DeVoto
A History of the American Fur Trade of the Far West by Hiram Martin Chittenden
A Majority of Scoundrels by Don Berry
When skins were money : A History Of The Fur Trade by James A. Hanson
The above are all good general background histories of the fur trade.
I do like reading actual accounts of the fur trade and I have shelves full of those...
Vikings ,
Yes I have read Jones and Foote / Wilson and enjoyed their works.
Jones's The North Atlantic Saga is worth searching out , if you haven't read it.
The Vikings in Britain By H.R. Lyon is a good , if general read on the subject.
Harold The Last Anglo-Saxon King by Ian W. Walker and BloodFeud , Murder and Revenge in Anglo Saxon England by Richard Fletcher , are good reads as well.
And of course the old stand by's:
Anglo-Saxon England by Stenton And
A History of the Anglo-Saxons By Hodgkin.
Both are a bit dated now , but well worth searching out and reading.

For Historical Fiction I like:
Parke Godwin's Sherwood and Tower of Beowulf
Frans Bengtsson's The Long Ships
And just to shift gears and get some humor in my history : Doctor Dogbody's Leg , by James Norman Hall.
Andy
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Andy, thanks for the suggestions for books on the fur trade. I'll see if the library has any
of them. Also Jones's North Atlantic Saga. I already have the books you recommended,
Harold The Last Anglo-Saxon King (Ian Walker) and Richard Fletcher's Blood Feud.
Both are good, but I particularly like Blood Feud. I "did" Stenton and Hodgkin at
University ( "in College" is more idiomatic on this side of the Atlantic, I think , but
even after 15 years as an alien in America I still have occasional lapses).
It is now about 4 a.m. here in Washington State, birthplace of Starbuck's . So.....
 
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