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: I am Sylvia Honeyeater; I think myself born around 1196, and this is the story of my life. I am cursed by folk as an optimist and a dreamer, which is a dangerous combination. . . From master storyteller Bryce Courtenay comes the colourful epic of Sylvia. Late twelfth-century Europe is torn by religious intolerance. Sylvia, with a singing voice that can literally charm the birds out of the trees, and an acute and questioning mind that refuses to accept unreasoned beliefs, embarks on a pilgrimage. She joins the Childrens Crusade, bound for the Holy Land. From a bawdy life as an entertainer in a whorehouse to an austere and frequently cruel existence in a convent, she fights to be true to her destiny. And her mysterious birthmark causes much confusion: can this peasant maid indeed be a chosen messenger Sylvia is a tale of adversity, of adventure and crusades, and of a beautiful and gifted woman.

ISBN: 9780670070268