by Bernard Cornwell · Editora y Distribuidora Hispano Americana, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788435018500
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«Northumbria, el último reino» is the historical novel by Bernard Cornwell, published by Edhasa in paperback (446 pages, in Spanish).
The year is 866: the Saxon kingdoms of southern England live in fear of the sea, from which the Vikings come. Uhtred, a young nobleman of Northumbria, is raised by the Dane Ragnar and must choose between claiming his inheritance or staying with those who raised him; at stake is the founding of England. The novel pits the Anglo-Saxon and Danish worlds, Christianity and paganism, against each other.
First instalment of the series «Sajones, Vikingos y Normandos», originally published as «The Last Kingdom»; translation by Libertad Aguilera.
For fans of historical fiction and medieval-set sagas about the conflict between Saxons and Vikings.
Bernard Cornwell is an English author of historical novels and a history of the Waterloo campaign. He is best known for his long-running series of novels about Napoleonic Wars rifleman Richard Sharpe. He has also written The Saxon Stories, a series of thirteen novels about the unification of England.
