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Author:Rosemary Sutcliff
Title:Frontier Wolf
Publisher:  Puffin
Country:UK
Date:1984
Format:Paperback
Genre:Fiction, History
ISBN-10:0140314725
Barcode:9780140314724
Total Editions:2
First Published:  1980
Rating:9.0  Rate
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Rosemary Sutcliff - Frontier Wolf - Oxford University Press - Hardcover - UK (1980)

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ppint.
5th Jun 2021
 first penguin group puffin books imprint uk p/b printing, possibly first p/b edition (there may be a prior oxford university press p/b edition)
at least four printings

dedication: ''to phil barker, ted bishop and wallace bream''

cover art by alan langford (credited)
b+w map (with decoration) by leslie marshall (credited)
cover price £4.95, aust. $8.95 (recommended), new zealand $?.99 (partly obliterated on my copy)
256pp. including 10pp. titles, indica, map, author's note, table-of-contents etc, 6 unnumbered end pp., a!ternately advertising and blank
 

 
ppint.
5th Jun 2021
 Rated 9/10
the third in rosemary sutcliff's extended matter of britain historical novel sequence, q.v., running from the investigation of the disappearance of the ninth legion through the attempt to set up an independent empire of roman britain and gaul, the withdrawal of the legions, the fight back by the romano-britons against the saxon invasions and colonisation, to preserve civilisation against the relatively barbarous frisian saxon invaders from the angle, through the final breaking of romano-british at aquae sulis - and the reappearance, flickering but still lit, of hope.

this novel is set in 323 a.d. (ce), in the period when the ''frontier wolves'' of the legions, still patrolling and still somewhat policing the vast area between the long-abandoned antonine wall and hadrian's wall, came under so great pressure from an alliance of irish and pictish tribes with the conservative religious elements within the local allied tribe, as to be forced to make a fighting retreat back to the main base of their operations - and what they and their commander, alexius flavius aquila, found there, and how he and they further fared. and thus, how the flawed emerald dolphin ring - and this member of the aquila family - survived the crisis.

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