The White Isle

Download or read book The White Isle written by Caroline Dale Snedeker and published by . This book was released on 2002-10 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The White Isle is Britain - a barbaric land to the patrician Claudian family exiled from Hardrian's Rome, but an island of strange enchantment and stirring adventures to Lavinia, their daughter, whose story Caroline Dale Snedeker tells in one of her finest books. The Story of Lavinia and her family, of their long, arduous and constantly exciting trip through Gaul to the farthest province of the empire, begins in Rome and comes to a romantic climax in the new home. It is one of the first books to bring to young people a spirited picture of Roman life in Gaul and Britain during the earliest days of Christianity.