(Read and download) Ivory Vikings: The Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the World and the Woman Who Made Them
• Nancy Marie Brown •
| #136144 in Books | Nancy Marie Brown | 2015-09-01 | 2015-09-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.62 x.99 x6.38l,1.00 | File Name: 1137279370 | 288 pages | Ivory Vikings The Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the World and the Woman Who Made Them
||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| A Window On A Vanished Society|By John D. Cofield|Back in 1831 a collection of 92 chessmen was discovered on the Isle of Lewis in the Hebrides. Carved from ivory taken from walrus tusks, each piece was individual and idiosyncratic, with differing faces, expressions, clothing, and weaponry. Debate over the Lewis chessmen's creator(s) and place(s) of origin began shortly after|||"Intriguing." ―New In Chess|"Full of exciting detective work, along with absorbing excursions into the history of the Vikings, of chess in the Middle Ages, and of walrus ivory (known as “arctic gold”)." ―The New Yorker|“A
In the early 1800's, on a Hebridean beach in Scotland, the sea exposed an ancient treasure cache: 93 chessmen carved from walrus ivory. Norse netsuke, each face individual, each full of quirks, the Lewis Chessmen are probably the most famous chess pieces in the world. Harry played Wizard's Chess with them in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Housed at the British Museum, they are among its most visited and beloved objects.
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