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Outcast

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  • Running Time: 07:23 hrs
    Narrator: David Van Der Molen
    Publisher:
    BC Libraries Cooperative, 2021
    Note: This book was recorded thanks to support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.
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    Running Time: 08:53 hrs
    Narrator: William Merryn Hill
    Publisher:
    BC Libraries Cooperative, 2023
    Note: This book was recorded thanks to support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

Details:

  • Author: Sutcliff, Rosemary
    Contributor: Kennedy, Richard
    Edition: 1st Sunburst ed.
    Date:
    Created
    1995
    Summary:

    Fifteen-year-old Beric feels increasingly bitter isolation when, because of his Roman birth, he is cast out by the Celtic tribe that raised him and, after reaching a Roman settlement, he is sold into slavery and sentenced to serve in a galley for the rest of his life.

    Contents:
    • Storm on the coast
    • Pack law
    • The outcast
    • The men from the sea
    • The arm-ring
    • A friend and an enemy
    • The dark days
    • Breaking-point
    • Escape!
    • The farm in the hills
    • The Alcestis of the Rhenus Fleet
    • Storm at sea
    • Jason's Island
    • The house above the mist
    • The builder of roads and drainer of marshes
    • Another stray
    • The wind rises
    • The great storm.
    Genre:
    Juvenile fiction, Historical fiction
    Subject(s): Great Britain | Slavery | Rome (Empire) | Orphans | Romans
    Original Publisher: New York, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 0374456739, 9780374456733