By the age of just twenty-two, Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641) had produced over 160 paintings, many of them ambitious compositions of remarkable quality. This book offers a study of the artists early career, spanning the eight years between 1613, when the artist was just fourteen, to his departure for Italy from Antwerp in October 1621.

A guide to the Norse world of the tenth century ad. It helps you discover everything you will need to become a successful Viking warrior: how to join a war band; what to look for in a good leader; how to behave at a feast; what weapons and armour to choose; how to fight in a shield wall; where to go raiding; and how to navigate at sea.

Nearly forty thrilling, first-hand accounts by men and women who are the modern heirs of the great explorers of previous ages.

A guide to eco-travel that considers the subject in various aspects, from daily commuting to global holiday, offering a key to designing vacations and other travels.

A practical, hands-on, step-by-step drawing course for children of 11 and over that engages with fashion's current vintage revival.

Endless sun, sparkling sea, crystalline sky these are the elements of the Mediterranean that offer its inhabitants a lifestyle that is the envy of the world and have delighted architects since antiquity. This title presents twenty-five of the region's most covetable houses. It includes work by internationally established architects.

Take a cast of archaeologists and historians who inhabit different worlds. Add a medieval king who died in battle, and was revived by Shakespeare as the ultimate anti-hero. Throw in a forensic quest with almost unbelievable twists, and a theatrical modern burial with no parallel, and you have the material for an irresistible story for our times.