England, 1460: The War of the Roses. Rival factions - Lancastrians and Yorkists - are hacking each other to death in a conflict that only the English could name after a beautifully-scented flower. It's not an ideal climate for tourists - but three exotic travellers from the Far East are not here for pleasure. They've come to find a missing kinsman. The English, however, are truly strange. Most of the indigenous population are of the cowed peasant variety whilst any noble who can't trace his ancestry to Norman Conquest ...
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England, 1460: The War of the Roses. Rival factions - Lancastrians and Yorkists - are hacking each other to death in a conflict that only the English could name after a beautifully-scented flower. It's not an ideal climate for tourists - but three exotic travellers from the Far East are not here for pleasure. They've come to find a missing kinsman. The English, however, are truly strange. Most of the indigenous population are of the cowed peasant variety whilst any noble who can't trace his ancestry to Norman Conquest isn't, really, an awfully nice chap. In between battles of the most astonishing brutality they convey respects instead of affection, make love strangely (and briefly) and amuse themselves by playing a game with an inflated bladder that is in everyway a war except it's called 'footie'. The Indians think they're mad. They also have this horrible suspicion that one day they will rule the world... A wonderfully offbeat take on medieval England at its most brutal and savage, KINGS OF ALBION snatches history, imbues it with the spirit of Rider Haggard and Joseph Conrad, turns it on its head, invites scintillating speculation and, best of all, renders it into a fabulously readable novel.
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Very Good or better condition, Near Fine. This book is in stock now, in our UK premises. Photos of our books are available on request (the pictures you see on Alibris are NOT our own).
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Good in good dust jacket. Outline: -Turning the adventure stories of empire and colonialism upside down from Rider Haggard to Conrad Julian Rathbone introduces into the Wars of the Roses at their most terrible and bloody climax three sophisticated and highly civilised easterners from South India who are on a mission to trace the Prince of Vijayanagara`s long-lost brother. Through their eyes the heart of darkness that was England is revealed. The result is a take on medieval England during its most gross and savage period filled with battles disease treasure with rival factions battling for a crown with a ferocity worthy of Rider Haggard`s lost tribes of Africa. But it is also the period of the proto-reformation foreshadowed by the great English Franciscans Roger Bacon Occam and Wycliffe and their followers-the terribly persecuted Lollards and Brothers of the Free Spirit. KINGS OF ALBION is a wonderful book richly descriptive packed with action savage and erotic but informed with a spirit of inquiry and speculation that lifts it far above the conventional history novel. -> the publisher of this PAPERBACK book is Little Brown and Company The date of this copy is 2000 booksalvation have grade it as Good and it will be shipped from our UK warehouse This book is from the Series. Shipping is Free for UK buyers and at a reasonable charge for buyer outside the UK.
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Very good. All orders are dispatched within 1 working day from our UK warehouse. Established in 2004, we are dedicated to recycling unwanted books on behalf of a number of UK charities who benefit from added revenue through the sale of their books plus huge savings in waste disposal. No quibble refund if not completely satisfied.
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Very good. All orders are dispatched within 1 working day from our UK warehouse. Established in 2004, we are dedicated to recycling unwanted books on behalf of a number of UK charities who benefit from added revenue through the sale of their books plus huge savings in waste disposal. No quibble refund if not completely satisfied.
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Very Good. Some outer edges have minor scuffs. Cover has light scratches. Textblock has tanning. Content has tanning but still in very good readable condition. Trade paperback (UK). 368 p.
