The Emperor's Winding Sheet
By Jill Paton Walsh.
Description
The life of a young boy set against the dramatic backdrop of the fall of Constantinople in 1453.Famished, terrified, exhausted, a boy drops from the tree in which he has hidden just as Constantine, last Emperor of the Romans, is about to receive his crown in a monastery garden. By this accident, Piers Barber, a shipwrecked young seaman from Bristol, England, now renamed Vrethiki ( lucky find ), becomes an unwilling talisman to the Emperor, for it has been prophesied that if even one person who is at his side when he takes the crown stays with him always, the City will not perish. This is th...
ISBN(s)
0374421218, 9780374421212
