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The Boat of Fate |
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A fine
historical novel set at the end of the Roman Empire. Out of print now for many
years, first editions are very difficult to find, paperbacks come on the market
occasionally.
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DUSTJACKET BLURB: . . . it recalls for the modern reader an
age of violence and disintegration when the old values of Imperial Rome were
under attack on all sides, from without by waves of Goths and Vandals and from
within by the followers of a fanatical new Eastern sect who worshipped the
Christos. Born in the reign of Theodosius the Great of a Celtic mother and an
embittered Roman intellectual, Sergius Paullus is from his early childhood
riven by contradictions which reflect the troubled spirit of his times.
Generous-spirited yet foolhardy, he is drawn into a series of escapades in
Hispania, Rome and Gaul. Eventually he is sent to Britannia, armed with
pitifully few troops and charged with galvanizing British resistance to the
invaders. How Sergius comes to lead this epic but doomed resistance makes a
tremendous climax to this historical novel.
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| FIRST EDITION: Hutchinson & Co, London, 1971 |
