When the great storm wrecked a Roman trading vessel on the coast of Britain only a child was saved, to be brought up by a British tribe until, when bad times come, they cast him out. There followed a period of great hardship and peril for the boy; and in recording the stormy adventures of Beric, who was cast into slavery in Rome and later condemned to the rowing benches of a Roman galley, Rosemary Sutcliff has written a magnificent novel of Roman Britain that rings true from the first page.
—from the dust jacket
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