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This Proud and Savage Land
Alexander Cordell
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Description for This Proud and Savage Land
Paperback. The prelude to the classic Rape of the Fair Country from bestselling historical author Alexander Cordell Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 26. Weight in Grams: 268.
Hywel Mortymer's story begins in 1800 when he is sixteen and a dramatic
change in fortune leads him, innocent and inexperienced, to a brutal and
dangerous life working in the coal mines.
In the mines children can be horribly maimed in devastating gas explosions,
or grow deformed with the burden of their labours and babies are born
underground.
Wales is in turmoil. A tragic divide between rich and poor, the workers powerless,
penniless, starving and diseased sparks growing unrest as the newly founded
Unions move inexorably towards the Chartist Rebellion.
This ... Read more is a brilliantly detailed chronicle of early nineteenth-
century Wales and a prelude to the bestselling Rape of the Fair Country.
Product Details
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
271g
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781473605060
SKU
V9781473605060
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-10
About Alexander Cordell
Alexander Cordell was born in Ceylon in 1914, was educated mainly in China and joined the army in 1932. After WWII, during which he served in France, he became a civil servant, spending three years in Hong Kong. He wrote more than thirty novels including the highly acclaimed 'Mortymer Trilogy' - The Rape of the Fair Country, The ... Read more
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