Dawn wind - Hardcover

Rosemary Sutcliff

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0192711784 ISBN 13: 9780192711786

Publisher: Oxford University Press First, 1961

Synopsis

The adventures of a youth in Britain during the Saxon invasion.

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About the Author

Rosemary Sutcliff was born in Surrey, the daughter of a naval officer. At the age of two she contracted the progressively wasting Still's disease and spent most of her life in a wheelchair. Apart from reading, she made little progress at school and left at fourteen to attend art school, specializing in miniature painting. In the 1940s she exhibited her first miniature in the Royal Academy and was elected a member of the Royal Society of Miniature Painters just after the war. In 1950 her first children's book, The Queen's Story, was published and from then on she devoted her time to writing the children's historical novels which have made her such an esteemed and highly respected name in the field of children's literature. She received an OBE in the 1975 Birthday Honour's List and a CBE in 1992. Rosemary Sutcliff died at the age of 72 in 1992.

Review

"First published in 1961, this reprint keeps its original charm by reproducing the black and white illustrations of Charles Keeping. Dawn Wind represents historical fiction at its best." * Historical Novel Society Review *

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press First
• Publication date: 1961
• ISBN 10: 0192711784
• ISBN 13: 9780192711786
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248