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Black Ships Before Troy
Rosemary Sutcliff
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Description for Black Ships Before Troy
Hardback. Frances Lincoln is proud to reintroduce the inaugural Greenaway award-winning Black Ships Before Troy. Rosemary Sutcliff brings Homer's epic poem The Iliad to life. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 5AH; YFA; YFT. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 278 x 214. .
Frances Lincoln is proud to reintroduce the Greenaway award-winning Black Ships Before Troy. Here is Homer's epic poem The Iliad, brought to life by Rosemary Sutcliff with all the skill of a master storyteller. Alan Lee's dramatic cover image hauntingly recreates the age of heroes in this introduction to the Greek classics--a book that should become part of every childhood.
Frances Lincoln is proud to reintroduce the Greenaway award-winning Black Ships Before Troy. Here is Homer's epic poem The Iliad, brought to life by Rosemary Sutcliff with all the skill of a master storyteller. Alan Lee's dramatic cover image hauntingly recreates the age of heroes in this introduction to the Greek classics--a book that should become part of every childhood.
Product Details
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28 g
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847809957
SKU
V9781847809957
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99-15
About Rosemary Sutcliff
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF was born in Surrey, the daughter of a naval officer. At the age of two she contracted the progressively wasting Still's disease, and hence spent most of her life in a wheelchair. Her first children's book was published in 1950, and from then on she devoted her time and talents to the writing of children's historical novels, which ... Read more
Reviews for Black Ships Before Troy
'This stunning children's version of The Iliad by the award-winning Rosemary Sutcliff and Alan Lee was first published in 1993 and is being republished now. Its rich illustration will look familiar to The Lord of the Rings fans, as Lee was the conceptual artist for the Peter Jackson films. Featuring the stories of heroes Ajax, Achilles and Penthesilea (the Amazon ... Read more