A boy of the lost crusade, by Agnes Danforth Hewes; with illustrations by Gustaf Tenggren.

Date:

1923.

Author:

Hewes, Agnes Danforth.

Collecting Area:

Mathes Childrens Literature

Call Number:

YH H598 B69 1923 LOCAL

Publisher:

Houghton Mifflin Company

Abstract:

A little French boy, Roland Arnot, joins the Children's Crusade of the 13th century to find his father, who a few years before, had gone to fight the Saracens. At Jaffa, he falls into the hands of a Syrian shepherd, learns to speak Arabic, and lives happily among the native people. At last he meets his father, joins the French army, and ends his strange experiences in Palestine.

Physical Description:

4 preliminary leaves, 279 pages color frontispiece, color plates 21 cm

Notes:

Library's copy inscribed, 1934. LOCAL

Curator Notes:

1923 Houghton Mifflin imprint, c 1923, inscribed 1934; spine titles stamped (originally?) in gold (completely rubbed and faded) on red cloth, full-size color illustration pasted to front cover

Subjects:

Children's Crusade, 1212 Fiction, Childrens̕ crusade, 1212 Fiction, Crusades, Adventure stories, Boys, Children Religious life, Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages, Fathers and sons, Saracens in literature, and Shepherds

Genres/Forms:

Historical fiction, Fiction, History, Juvenile works, and Historical fiction. lcgft

Chronological Terms:

1200-1299 fast

Geographic Terms:

France, Israel Tel Aviv Jaffa, Middle East Palestine, and Syria