This Proud and Savage Land by Alexander Cordell - ISBN: 9781473605060
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Innocence lost, brutal mines, Welsh turmoil, and a fight for freedom.

This Proud and Savage Land

The Mortymer Trilogy Book One

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    400 pages

  • Release Date

    30 September 2014

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Summary

Hywel Mortymer’s story begins in 1800 when he is sixteen and a dramatic change in fortune leads him, innocent and inexperienced, to a brutal and dangerous life working in the coal mines.

In the mines children can be horribly maimed in devastating gas explosions, or grow deformed with the burden of their labours and babies are born underground.

Wales is in turmoil. A tragic divide between rich and poor, the workers powerless, penniless, starving and diseased sparks growing unre…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781473605060
ISBN-10:1473605067
Author:Alexander Cordell
Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton
Imprint:Hodder & Stoughton
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:400
Release Date:30 September 2014
Weight:281g
Dimensions:198mm x 132mm x 25mm
Series:The Mortymer Trilogy
About The Author

Alexander Cordell

Alexander Cordell was born in Ceylon in 1914, was educated mainly in China and joined the army in 1932. After WWII, during which he served in France, he became a civil servant, spending three years in Hong Kong.

He wrote more than thirty novels including the highly acclaimed ‘Mortymer Trilogy’ - The Rape of the Fair Country, The Hosts of Rebecca and Song of the Earth. He died on 13 November 1997 aged eighty-three.

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