Sylvia

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Viking
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2007
Edition: Reprint

Description: 498 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

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 . . . & " & lt;br/ & gt;Sylvia is a story of the Childrens 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. It is also a story of how, throughout some of the darkest medieval times, the redeeming power and strength of a young womans love and intelligence prevail over poverty, brutality and bigotry. I trust you will enjoy it as much as I enjoyed taking the few scattered bones of medieval Latin and Arabic texts and recreating from them this story of Sylvia: a remarkable, talented and eccentric young woman. & lt;br/ & gt;- Bryce Courtenay

ISBN: 9780670071227