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Charles Kightly.
Folk Heroes of Britain.
Published London: Thames and Hudson, 1984 (previously issued in hardback, 1982).
ISBN 0500273251;
ISBN-13: 9780500273258.
Binding: paperback, stitch bound.
Size: 157x233x17mm.
Page count: 208pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition: this copy has a little wear on the edges and corners of the covers, with the veneer peeling from the front cover, otherwise looks in generally good order.


This item £4.50
plus P&P £3.00 within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

Weight without packaging: 444g.

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Contents: Caratacus & the Roman conquest of Britain; Boadicea's revolt; The real King Cole; Heroes of Anglo-Saxon England [St. Edmund, Alfred the Great, Cnut, Harold Godwinson, Wild Edric]; Hereward & the Fenland revolt; William Wallace & the Scottish War of Independence.

Notes: no
Tables: no
Illustrations: 11 text illustrations and 16 pages of plates, all monochrome
Maps & plans: 9
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 5pp
Index: yes


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