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Ian Finlay.
Columba.
Published Glasgow: Richard Drew Publishing, 1990 reissue (previously published by Gollancz, 1979).
ISBN 0862672767;
ISBN-13: 9780862672768.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printer: Cox & Wyman, Reading.
Size: 126×197×16mm.
Page count: 254pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: the covers on this copy are rather scuffed and creased, some fraying at the edges and corners; pages yellowed with age; the spine is not creased from reading and the text appears to be free of marking.

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This item £5.00
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Weight without packaging: 239g.

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Contents: Pagan heritage; Coming of Christianity; Coming of Columba; Cursing of Tara; Battle of Cul Dreimne; Passage to Iona; Mission to the Picts; Columba the king-maker; Convention of Drum Ceatt; Atmosphere of miracle; Last days of Columba; Confrontation with Canterbury; Art & the Celtic Church; Coming of the Northmen.

Illustrations: 23 text illustrations, 8 pages of plates, all monochrome
Maps & plans: 2

Notes: no
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 2pp
Index: yes

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