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Edoardo Albert - In Search of Alfred the Great: The King, The Grave, The Legend - 9781445649641 - V9781445649641
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In Search of Alfred the Great: The King, The Grave, The Legend

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Description for In Search of Alfred the Great: The King, The Grave, The Legend Paperback. The fascinating story of one of England's most famous monarchs, Alfred the Great, from his birth to the discovery of a piece of his pelvis in a cardboard box in a museum in Winchester Num Pages: 272 pages, 30. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3F; BGH; HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 197 x 24. Weight in Grams: 264.
Alfred, son of AEthelwulf, king of the West Saxons, ran. Behind him, the takers of his land and kingdom fanned out, searching for the fleeing king ... Buried in AD 899 as the king of the English at his capital city of Winchester, Alfred the Great's bones were thought to have ultimately been moved to an unmarked grave. His remains had been completely lost to us for centuries until researchers at the University of Winchester discovered what is in all probability a piece of his pelvis in a cardboard box. This exciting discovery has reawakened interest in ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Chalford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781445649641
SKU
V9781445649641
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-29

About Edoardo Albert
Edoardo Albert is a writer of Sri Lankan and Italian roots whose work with archaeologists running the Bamburgh Research Project fired his imagination and interest in the Anglo-Saxon era. His trilogy of historical novels, The Northumbrian Thrones, is being published by Lion Fiction, and this is his second non-fiction book on the Anglo-Saxon period. Dr Katie Tucker made the astonishing ... Read more

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