The Lantern Bearers
by Rosemary Sutcliff, Charles Keeping (Illustrator)
ISBN-10: 0192755064
ISBN-13: 9780192755063
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Book Specs
Binding
UK-Trade Paper
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Published on
Jan 1, 2007
Edition
st Edition
Dimensions
5.00x1.00x7.70 Inches
Weight
0.67 Pounds
About the Book
Here is a tireless quest for revenge in this Carnegie Medal winning book, the final part in Rosemary Sutcliff's outstanding The Eagle of the Ninth trilogy. The last of the Roman army have set sail and left Britain for ever, abandoning it to civil war and the threat of a Saxon invasion. Aquila deserts his regiment to return to his family, but his home and all that he loves are destroyed. Years of hardship and fighting follow and in the end there is only one thing left in Aquila's life - his thirst for revenge...