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The Leper's Companions
Julia Blackburn
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Description for The Leper's Companions
Hardcover. Fine in dustwrapper. An excellent copy
One morning in 1410, two men from an East-Coast fishing village find a mermaid washed up on the sand. This discovery starts a chain of events that leads four of our villages-the priest, the shoemaker's wife, the fisherman's daughter and the leper-on a pilgrimage: across the North Sea, to Venice and then along the Mediterranean coast to the Holy Land. With the magical imagination that has illumiated her previous books, Julia Blackburn travels with her pilgrims. At first she follows from Distance, but gradually she pulls closer until the five centuries between their time and ours dissolve and the author ... Read more
One morning in 1410, two men from an East-Coast fishing village find a mermaid washed up on the sand. This discovery starts a chain of events that leads four of our villages-the priest, the shoemaker's wife, the fisherman's daughter and the leper-on a pilgrimage: across the North Sea, to Venice and then along the Mediterranean coast to the Holy Land. With the magical imagination that has illumiated her previous books, Julia Blackburn travels with her pilgrims. At first she follows from Distance, but gradually she pulls closer until the five centuries between their time and ours dissolve and the author ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Jonathan Cape Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780224051279
SKU
KTJ0050134
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Julia Blackburn
Julia Blackburn is the author of Charles Waterton, The Emperor's Last Island, Daisy Bates in the Desert, which was shortlisted for the Waterstones/Esquire Non Fiction Award, and The Book of Colour, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize. She lives in Suffolk.
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