The emperor's winding sheet.
Edition: [1st American ed.]
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 1974
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
Subjects: Byzantine Empire -- History -- Constantine XI Dragases, 1448-1453 -- Juvenile fiction.; Byzantine Empire -- History -- Constantine XI Dragases, 1448-1453 -- Fiction.; Istanbul (Turkey) -- History -- Siege, 1453 -- Fiction.; Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918 -- Fiction.
Description: An English boy, shipwrecked, hungry, and lost, finds his way into the court of Constantine where he is interpreted as a symbol of good luck and, as such, ordered to be kept always near the king.