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Item Details
| Title:
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MEADOWLAND
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| By: |
Thomas C. Holt |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£7.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0349117411 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780349117416 |
| Publisher: |
LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP |
| Pub. date: |
3 March, 2005 |
| Pages: |
448 |
| Description: |
The fifth historical novel from the acclaimed author Thomas Holt - an innovative, challenging and wonderfully entertaining writer of historical fiction. |
| Synopsis: |
In 1037, a senior civil servant of the Byzantine empire faces a tedious journey to Greece, escorting the Army payroll. His only companions are a detachment of the Empire's elite Guard, recruited from Viking Scandinavia. When the wagon sheds a wheel, he passes the time talking with two veterans, who have a remarkable story to tell; the Viking discovery of America.As he records the story, years later, he also considers its effect on the fourth member of the party; a young Norwegian guardsman who went on to become King Harald Hardradi, who died invading England in 1066 ... |
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Returnable |
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