by Gillian Bradshaw · SALAMANDRA EDICIONES · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788478883349
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«El faro de Alejandría» is the historical novel by Gillian Bradshaw, published by Salamandra Ediciones in paperback (512 pages, in Spanish).
In the fourth century, a young woman from Ephesus wants to be a doctor, but women are forbidden to practise. Disguised as a eunuch, she flees to Alexandria, the great centre of learning, where she trains with a Jewish physician. Church politics force her to flee again; she serves as a military doctor in Thrace and, kidnapped by the Visigoths, finds her destiny.
Original work in English: The Beacon at Alexandria (1986). Spanish translation by María José Gassó.
For readers of historical fiction set in Antiquity and fiction with a female protagonist.
Gillian Marucha Bradshaw is an American writer of historical fiction, historical fantasy, children's literature, science fiction, and contemporary science-based novels, who lives in Britain. Her serious historical novels are often set in classical antiquity — Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, the Byzantine Empire, Saka and the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, Imperial Rome, Sub-Roman Britain and Roman Britain. She has also written two novels set in the English Civil War.
