The Ship in the Woods

by William Sullivan, Karen Sullivan (Illustrator)

Overview

Swedish Vikings founded Russia and named the realm after their leader, Rurik. A thousand years later, during the Cold War, Swedish archeologists raised the Vasa, a mighty gunship that had been meant to seal Sweden's second claim as a world power.
The Ship in the Woods follows two timelines—the Vikings venturing out from Sweden to besiege Constantinople, and the 1960s archeologists unearthing clues from Cold War spies about what seems might be the end of the world.
By the same author, The Ship in the Hill told the story of the start of the Viking age in Norway, and The Ship in the Sand described the Danes' conquest of England. In the works is The Ship in the Ice, about the Vikings' fateful voyages to Iceland and America.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940186514497
Publisher:	Navillus Press
Publication date:	02/24/2023
Series:	Viking Saga , #3
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	9 MB

About the Author

William L. Sullivan is the author of seven novels and more than a dozen nonfiction books. He grew up in Salem, Oregon, completed his B.A. degree in English at Cornell University under Alison Lurie, studied linguistics at Germany’s Heidelberg University, and earned an M.A. in German at the University of Oregon. He reads in a dozen languages, including Danish, Norwegian, and Old Norse. He undertook seven voyages to Scandinavia while researching Nordic sagas and Viking history for The Ship in the Hill.
Sullivan is known in the American West as the author who backpacked more than a thousand miles across Oregon’s wilderness in 1985. His journal of that adventure, Listening for Coyote, has since been chosen one of Oregon’s “100 Books,” the most significant books in Oregon history. In summer he writes at the log cabin that he and his wife Janell Sorensen built by hand in the wilds of Oregon’s Coast Range, more than a mile from roads, electricity, and telephones. The story of that cabin retreat is the subject of his other adventure memoir, Cabin Fever. The rest of the year they live in Eugene, Oregon, where he volunteers to promote libraries and literature.