Career
Her last book, Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths, was a Times Literary Supplement 2012 Book of the Year. Her other books are
Ivory Vikings: The Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the World and the Woman Who Made Them (2015)
The Abacus and the Cross: The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages (2010)
The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman (2007)
Mendel in the Kitchen: A Scientist"s View of Genetically Modified Food (with Nina Fedoroff, 2004)
A Good Horse Has Number Color: Searching Iceland for the Perfect Horse (2001).
