The Emperor's Winding Sheet
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Book Description
The life of a young boy set against the dramatic backdrop of the fall of Constantinople in 1453.
Famished, terrified, exhausted, a boy drops from the tree in which he has hidden just as Constantine, last Emperor of the Romans, is about to receive his crown in a monastery garden. By this accident, Piers Barber, a shipwrecked young seaman from Bristol, England, now renamed Vrethiki ("lucky fi... More
Famished, terrified, exhausted, a boy drops from the tree in which he has hidden just as Constantine, last Emperor of the Romans, is about to receive his crown in a monastery garden. By this accident, Piers Barber, a shipwrecked young seaman from Bristol, England, now renamed Vrethiki ("lucky fi... More
Book Information
Publisher | Sunburst - Children's Editorial Department |
Binding | Paperback (10 editions) |
Reading Level | Young Adults |
# of Pages | 288 |
ISBN-10 | 0374421218 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0374421212 |
Publication Date | 04/1992 |
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