The sunbird
By: Elizabeth E. Wein.
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
Subjects: Plague -- Fiction; Salt mines and mining -- Fiction; Aksum (Kingdom) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: When, in the sixth century, plague spreads from Britain to Aksum, young Telemakos travels to the kingdom's salt mines to discover the identity of the traitor to the crown who, ignoring the emperor's command, is spreading plague with the salt from port to port.
Notes: Sequel to: A coalition of lions.