Under the Southern Cross: A Tale of the New World - Softcover

Alcock, Deborah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1990771270 ISBN 13: 9781990771279

Publisher: Cantaro Publications, 2023

Synopsis

On a burning autumn afternoon, in the Sixteenth Century, which had then passed its meridian by rather more than ten years, Don Fray Tomas de San Martin, the stately prior of the great Franciscan monastery of Ciudad de los Reyes, now called Lima, was sitting alone in his private apartment... In spite of physical languor and exhaustion, an expression of satisfaction lit up his countenance as he finished his second careful perusal of a letter he held in his hand. Then he laid the document on the table before him, pausing, however, to glance, with a slight smile, at the pompous armorial bearings inscribed on the seals with which the floss silk that bound it had been secured.

About this title

About the Author

DEBORAH ALCOCK (1835-1913) was a prolific Victorian author of historical fiction on religious themes. She was born in Ireland, where her father, the Venerable John Alcock, became Archdeacon of Waterford. She also wrote The Czar (1882), Under the Southern Cross: Tales of the New World (1900), and Under Calvin's Spell (1902).

Edition details

• Publisher: Cantaro Publications
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1990771270
• ISBN 13: 9781990771279
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 736