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In this exciting historical adventure, a famished, exhausted, and terrified boy drops from the tree in which he has hidden just as Constantine, last Emperor of the Romans, is about to receive his crown. Thus Piers Barber, shipwrecked young seaman from Bristol, England, now renamed Vrethiki... read more
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From where the boy was, precariously perched in the bending branches of the little orange tree, a wide and lovely landscape could be seen.
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- Jill Paton Walsh (Author)
Awards edit
- Whitbread Literary Award (1974: Children's Book)
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