Sylvia

Penguin Group Australia, Camberwell, Melbourne, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. acknowledgements. Pale tan coloured endpapers. Brown coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the backstrip. Bumping and rubbing to the backstrip edges, to the book corners and shelf wear to the lower book edges. Light browning to the text block edges. Photographic dustwrapper with gilt and white coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. Rubbing and creasing to the top and bottom dustwrapper edges. Rubbing to the dustwrapper panels. Author photograph to the rear fold over panel. "Sylvia is a story of the Children's Crusade, which occurred in the year 1212. It is perhaps the strangest true event to have taken place in European history. I enjoyed the digging that uncovered it -- buried in a dark corner of times a long out of mind. It is also a story of how, throughout some of the darkest mediaeval times, the redeeming power and strength of a young woman's love and intelligent prevail over a poverty, brutality and bigotry. I trust you'll enjoy as much as I enjoyed taking a few scattered bones of mediaeval Latin and Arabic texts and recreating from them the story of Sylvia: a remarkable, talented and eccentric young woman" -- from the front fold over panel. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VI, 506 pages, last three pages blank,. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; Medieval 10th to 15thc; ISBN: 0670070262. ISBN/EAN: 9780670070268. Inventory No: 0114574. . 9780670070268