The black plume: the waving badge of freedom worn by the great Italian leader Garibaldi in his gallant struggle to bring unity to Italy.
In all of that country's long and turbulent history, few crusades were more dramatic than this one that stormy period in the nineteenth century in which Geoffrey Trease has set his new adventure.
Follow My Black Plume tells the story through the exciting experiences of Mark Apperley, a protected English lad who is sent to Rome with his tutor to further his studies. On his travels he meets up with Tessa and Pietro, an Italian brother and sister who are passionately devoted to the cause of Italian liberty. Through them Mark and even his tutor become far more involved in the fight and the fighting than they had ever dreamed possible back in the quiet countryside of England.
In Follow My Black Plume, Geoffrey Trease demonstrates once again his remarkable talent for combining a great knowledge of history with a narrative skill that has made his many other works (Cue for Treason, Web of Traitors, Message to Hadrian, etc.) such memorable classics in the field of historical fiction for boys and girls.
(Jacket design by Leonard Vosburgh)
—from the dust jacket
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