The Eagle of the Ninth

Klappentext "The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story." David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading. Vorwort In the second century AD, when the Ninth Roman Legion marched into the mists of northern Britain, not one man came back. Zusammenfassung Word count 14,950 Suitable for younger learners

Zusammenfassung

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In the second century AD, when the Ninth Roman Legion marched into the mists of northern Britain, not one man came back. Four thousand men disappeared, and the Eagle, the symbol of the Legion's honour, was lost. Years later there is a story that the Eagle has been seen again. So Marcus Aquila, whose father disappeared with the Ninth, travels north, to find the Eagle and bring it back, and to learn how his father died. But the tribes of the north are wild and dangerous, and they hate the Romans...

Word count 14,950

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Rosemary Sutcliff
• Mitarbeit: Ron Tiner (Illustration), Ron (Illustr.) Tiner (Illustration), Jennifer Bassett (Herausgeber), Alison Baxter (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.01.2008
• EAN: 9780194791724
• ISBN: 978-0-19-479172-4
• Seiten: 88
• Abmessung: 128 mm x 195 mm x 7 mm
• Gewicht: 110 g
• Illustration: s/w. Abb.
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