- Adventure and adventurers, Crusades, Fiction, Juvenile fiction
Seventeen-year-old Philip learns the skills of a knight in his father's castle in 12th-century Jerusalem. Bravely surviving Saracen attack, he joins Richard the Lionhearted in the Third Crusade before returning to England to claim his ancestral estate.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Ronald Welch
- First published
- 1954
- Pages
- 272
- Publisher
- Puffin Books, Oxford U.P, Oxford University Press
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- und, English
- ISBN
- 9780192710604
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Ronald Welch was a historian who served as a Tank Corps officer in the Second World War and in 1947 became Headmaster of Okehampton Grammar School.
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