"Walsh brings a meticulous eye for detail and storyteller's skill to this tale of the fall of Constantinople in 1453 and the siege that marked the end of the Byzantine Empire. "
This book has been graded for interest at 9-12 years.
There are 251 pages in this book. This book was published 2004 by Front Street Inc .
Jill Paton Walsh is a distinguished writer, best-known for her adult novel, Knowledge of Angels, which was shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize. Among her many children's titles are The Dolphin Crossing (widely acknowledged as a modern classic); Gaffer Samson's Luck (Winner of the Smarties Prize); The Emperor's Winding Sheet (Winner of the Whitbread Award) and Thomas and the Tinners (Winner of the Smarties Prize).
This book contains the following story:
The Emperor's Winding Sheet
This story is set in Constantinople at its fall to the Turks. Piers Barber has been sent abroad from England by his uncle on an English trade ship, after his father's sudden illness makes educating him further impossible. The ship is wrecked and Piers taken by pirates. Eventually he ends up in the hands of Constantine, the soon to be crowned emperor. But Constantinople is doomed to fall in 1453. As the Turks move in the end of the Byzantine Empire is nigh...
