Sylvia

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Viking
Publisher Place: Camberwell
Publisher Year: 2006
Edition: First Edition

Description: 498 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout. 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 Long Out Of Mind. This Story Of Sylvia Is A Remarkable, Talented And Eccentric Young Woman.

Publishers Description: From master storyteller Bryce Courtenay comes a colourful, lusty story set in the thirteenth century.The story of Sylvia Honeyeater, who sings like an angel and can literally charm the birds from the trees, this epic tale of a Europe torn by religious intolerance also features the Pied Piper of Hamelin, Francis of Assisi, the Muslim Sultan and his harem, as well as the fervour that became the Children?s Crusade and then later the Crusades ?This will be the first of three volumes in what promises to be a broad, sweeping magnum opus.

ISBN: 9780670070268