The Hamish Hamilton Book of Heroes

by William Mayne

Other authorsKrystyna Turska (Illustrator)
Hardcover, 1967

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Available

Call number

398.2

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Publication

Hamish Hamilton (1967), Hardcover

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A collection of poetry, ballads, songs, myths and legends about heroes.

• Pwyll, Pryderi, and Gawl, retold by W. Mayne.
• How Finn Maccumhall was in the House of the Rowan Tree without power to stand or leave to sit down, by A. Garner.
• Hynd Horn, Anonymous.
• K_agssagssuk, the homeless boy who became a strong man, edited and translated by W. Worster.
• Adam Bell, Clym of the Clough, and William of Cloudesley, edited by W. Mayne.
• Of the great and famous, by R. Hayman.
• Drake's cannon ball, by R. L. Tongue.
• The revenge, by A. Tennyson.
• Paul Jones. Anonymous.
• The Shannon and the Chesapeake. Anonymous.
• The old navy, by C. Marryat.
• Sir Perceval, retold by W. Mayne.
• The minotaur, by N. Hawthorne.
• The Battle of Roncesvalles, retold by T. Bulfinch.
• V_olund the smith, retold by B. L. Picard.
• The courtship of Lemmink_ainen, retold by W. Mayne.
• Prince Marko and a Moorish chieftain, adapted by W.Mayne.
• Horatius, by Lord Macauley.
• The troubles at Hawaiki, adapted by W. Mayne.
• The death of Kwasind from The song of Hiawatha, by H. W. Longfellow.
• Tavadan, by C. Molin.
• Thomas Berennikov, by R. Nisbet Bain.
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