The Gauntlet (Oxford Children's Library)

by Ronald Welch

T R Freeman (Illustrator)

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When Peter finds the gauntlet on a Welsh hillside, he becomes the latest link in an old legend. Suddenly transported back to the fourteenth century, to a world of castles, feasts, jousts, and battles, he is accepted by everyone as the eldest son of Sir Roger de Blois. Peter learns how to live as the son of a Norman lord, how to hawk, and fight, and shoot a longbow, and, finally he has to escape alone from their besieged castle to bring help. But one day he will have to return to his own time...
  • ISBN10 0192717626
  • ISBN13 9780192717627
  • Publish Date 1 February 1999 (first published December 1955)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 7 August 2006
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Oxford University Press
  • Edition New edition
  • Format Paperback (UK Trade)
  • Pages 208
  • Language English