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The Eagle of the Ninth is a historical adventure novel for children written by Rosemary Sutcliff and published in 1954. The story is set in Roman Britain in the 2nd century AD, after the building of Hadrian's Wall.
The Eagle of the Ninth tells the story of a young Roman officer who sets out to discover the truth behind the mysterious disappearance of the Ninth Legion, who marched into the mists of northern Britain and never came back.
L'Aquila della IX Legione è un romanzo di genere storico-avventuroso della scrittrice inglese Rosemary Sutcliff, pubblicato originariamente nel 1954, con il titolo The Eagle of the Ninth. Ambientato nella Britannia del II secolo, narra vicende di carattere militare e personale che vedono protagonista il giovane comandante Marco ...
24 mag 2010 · Marcus is invalided out of the army after his first command is overrun by tribesmen stirred up by druids into a holy war; he undertakes to travel north in an attempt to retrieve the Eagle emblem of the vanished Ninth Legion, lost when under his father's command ten years before.
5 gen 2021 · Marcus, a young centurion, embarks on a quest north of Hadrian's Wall to discover what had happened to his father's Legion and, if possible, to recover the famous Eagle, symbol of the Legion's honour. Originally published: London : Oxford University Press, 1954. Access-restricted-item.
1 apr 2011 · The Eagle of the Ninth tells of the young Marcus Aquila, a centurion on his first command on the fringes of the Roman empire. Injured terribly during a skirmish with natives flamed to...
The Eagle of the Ninth (1954) is perhaps her finest work and exemplifies the psychological dilemmas that Rosemary Sutcliff brought to her novels. It is a quest story involving a journey north to the land of the Picts to recover the lost standard of the Roman Ninth Legion.
