Pillars of light, Jane Johnson
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Pillars of light, Jane Johnson
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-468)
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Pillars of light
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Jane Johnson
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In the Syrian city of Akka, young Jewish doctor Nathanael and Muslim girl Zohra are about to fall in love. But Saladin's army has just taken Jerusalem, and soon their own city will be engulfed by war. Meanwhile in England, John Savage, a foundling boy, runs away from his cruel life in a priory with the Moor, a mysterious man driven by a dream of perfection. They join a band of conmen travelling through the English countryside faking religious miracles for cash, until they are recruited in Richard the Lionheart's army and sent to regain the Latin Kingdom from the infidel. Akka awaits. It will be the site of the greatest and cruellest siege of its time. But even in the midst of war, lovers find ways to make transactions of beauty
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