Title: The sunbird
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.
Subjects: Fiction, Plague, Salt mines and mining, Children's fiction, Fantasy fiction, Science fiction, Africa, fiction
Places: Aksum (Kingdom)