num_pages: 191
description: The year is 38BC, Cerdic and his explorer uncle, Mago the Carthaginian, are on a long and arduous journey of discovery from the Mediterranean to the land of the people who live ‘behind the North Wind’. These are the Chinese, who manufacture the miraculous and beautiful material now known as silk. They are joined on their trek by a couple who they rescue from the sea – a young Roman, Festus, and his tongueless slave. They too are on a quest: to find Festus’ father, who did not return after the bloody battle of Carrhae some sixteen years before.It is no easy journey as the small party laboriously crosses the hundreds of miles of desert and mountain. There are constant dangers: they are attacked by hostile tribes, and they are finally captured by the dreaded leader of the Hsiung-nu (the Huns), the Fire King Jzh-Jzh, and his warrior daughter, Xandria.This is an exceptionally exciting story, and yet it is more than a tale of high adventure. It is also a comparison of cultures: the ordered, inflexible nobility of the Romans is contrasted with the brutal bloodlust of the Huns. It presents a fascinating picture of a little-known period of history.
language: English
title: Legion of the White Tiger
titlecomplete: Legion of the White Tiger
ratings_count: 5
publisher: Trafalgar Square