A LAND FIT FOR HEROES. BOOK 3: THE DRAGON WAKES by Mann, Phillip - 1995

a fantasy where the roman empire still holds sway in Britain and dragons roam. wraparound cover art

London England: Victor Gollancz, 1995. Hardback. Ex-library with ex-library markings. In this world Rome never fell to the Barbarians, the legions never left Britain and now, in the late twentieth century, Rome is the capital of a vast global civilization....which, like all great civilizations, is a hotbed of political conspiracy and intrigue. But with Europe's agriculture paralysed by disease, Britannia, immune on its island, comes to the attention of the Emperor. Soon plans are laid to transform the land of mysterious forests into a vast, treeless sheep farm - and enslave the native population. The Dragon Wakes is the penultimate volume of A Land Fit For Heroes, an epic and beautifully realized fantasy of a Britain that might have been. 263 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.). First Edition. Boards. Good/Very Good. 8vo - over… Read More

London England: Victor Gollancz, 1995. In this world Rome never fell to the Barbarians, the legions never left Britain and now, in the late twentieth century, Rome is the capital of a vast global civilization....which, like all great civilizations, is a hotbed of political conspiracy and intrigue. But with Europe's agriculture paralysed by disease, Britannia, immune on its island, comes to the attention of the Emperor. Soon plans are laid to transform the land of mysterious forests into a vast, treeless sheep farm - and enslave the native population. The Dragon Wakes is the penultimate volume of A Land Fit For Heroes, an epic and beautifully realized fantasy of a Britain that might have been.. First Edition. Boards. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback.