Envoy Extraordinary - Hardcover

Tranter, Nigel

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ISBN 10: 0340739231 ISBN 13: 9780340739235

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, 1999

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Patrick of Dunbar was more interested in encouraging the trade generated by the great wool production of his sheep-strewn Lammermuir Hills than in warfare and matters of state. But these were troubled times. The Scottish king, Alexander III, was but a child and the heir to the English throne, Edward Plantagenet, already proving aggressive. But it was the Norsemen and the Vikings, with their domination of the Hebrides, as well Orkney, Shetland and the Isle of Man and the immediate threat they presented to his trading links with Norway and the Baltic States, who finally drove the Cospatrick to action.

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One of Scotland's leading historical novelists (The Sunday Times)

Nigel Tranter captures the spirit of the times and writes with an absorbing attention to detail (Yorkshire Evening Post)

He has a burning respect for the spirit of history and deploys his characters with mastery (Observer)

Nigel Tranter reaches down the ages to breathe life into his characters (Daily Telegraph)

Book Description:

The compelling 13th century tale of Patrick, 7th Earl of Dunbar and March, the Cospatrick

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