Item #003775 Green Blades Rising: The Anglo-Saxons. Kevin Crossley-Holland.

Green Blades Rising: The Anglo-Saxons

New York: The Seabury Press, 1976. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Very Good / Very Good. Item #003775

Quarter black cloth, blue cloth boards, silver lettering to spine. 143 p.p. Fifty-five B&W illustrations, maps, and eight pages of full colour. Sunning to top edge and a few spots of soiling to spine head. Dust jacket lightly bumped and worn at extremities, a few spots of wear to spine, bumping to spine head. DJ is price clipped. The Anglo-Saxon period begins in the fifth century, with the migration of Germanic tribes from Europe to south and east England, just abandoned by the Romans; and it ends, six hundred years later, at the Battle of Hastings. In Green Blades Rising, Kevin Crossley-Holland looks in detail at the daily life and cultural achievement of the Anglo-Saxons, "our nameless distant ancestors" who first made England into a land of little villages, from whom our language is descended, and whose qualities and attitudes dovetail so strikingly with our own.

Price: $35.00

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