Outcast
When a Roman ship is wrecked off the coast of Britain, an infant, Beric, is the only survivor. He is rescued by a British tribe who raise him as their own until they can no longer ignore his Roman ancestry.
When a Roman ship is wrecked off the coast of Britain, an infant, Beric, is the only survivor. He is rescued by a British tribe who raise him as their own until they can no longer ignore his Roman ancestry.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780374456733 (0374456739)
Publish date: October 30th 1995
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages no: 229
Edition language: English
One more down in my ongoing quest to read all the Sutcliff books ever! (If you think I’m kidding.) This is a nice one–Bran is part of a Celtic tribe in Romano-Britain. But he was found in the wreck of a Roman ship and so he is never more than tolerated. In the end, it’s a story about finding your ho...
Another of Rosemary Sutcliff's novels set in Roman Britain, though not part of the Eagle Of The Ninth series, Outcast is the story of Beric, washed up on the shores of Britain as a baby after his parents were drowned when their ship foundered off the coast of south-western England. Although Beric's ...