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Bezig met laden... The Wallace: The Compelling 13th Century Story of William Wallace (Coronet Books) (editie 1994)door Nigel Tranter (Auteur)
Informatie over het werkThe Wallace: The Compelling 13th Century Story of William Wallace (Coronet Books) door Nigel Tranter
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![]() Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. ![]() ![]() In this book, Nigel Tranter tells the story of William Wallace, son of a small knight of Elderslie, who ended up jump-starting resistance to Edward Longshanks of England, fighting on behalf of the deposed John Balliol and eventually, by his actions, setting Robert the Bruce on the path to the Scottish throne. As one comes to expect with a Tranter book, this one is rich in detail and does a fairly good job of balancing the needs of informing the reader with advancing the plot in a non-clunky way. I’m sure some liberties have been taken to the presentation of history to make things more immersive or relatable for the modern reader, but overall I’m prepared to accept those. What really surprised me, and what I had to keep in mind, was that Wallace was just 26 years old when he started his campaigns. That’s only slightly older than my brother is now—and it’s not a fact that comes to mind when I think about him. Even the painting of him on the cover of my edition makes him seem much older. Speaking of my edition, it’s a Coronet Books mass market paperback and makes an error in attributing the painting. Well, I don’t doubt that it was painted by George Jamesone, but the back cover listing the art credit seemed to be giving Jamesone *Wallace’s* birth and death dates. “Jamesone did NOT live from 1274 to 1305,” I said. “He was in the 1600s!” And the text contained a fair number of typos, so maybe don’t read this particular edition. But the story itself is great. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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