Resultados da Pesquisa: the firedrake rousing novel of por holland cecelia pseudonym

Canada: Ballantine Books, 1973. Book. Illus. by Alan Lee Painted Cover.. FINE+, Near New. Soft cover. First Edition By This Publisher.. 176 pages. "Year - 1066; Christiandom was still shadowed by archaic pagan gods the year William brought down Harold and his Saxon earls at Hastings . the year that the firedrake streaked the skies of Europe with ominous, prophetic flame. The Firedrake is both a legendary dragon and Halley's comet, whose first appearance in 1066 was portent of the Norman conquest of Britian. Cecelia Holland depicts this tempestuous era through the travels of Laeghaire of the Long Road, anIrish mercenary who journeys from Thuringia, to Flanders and finally to England with William to Conqueror. She tells her story with inspired simplicity; laeghaire's loves, battles, boastings and braveries might have happened yesterday - or today." Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall..