The extraordinary true story of Red Hugh O'Donnell -- kidnap, gaol, dungeons, escape Ireland in 1587 was a tough place. The old Irish clans struggled desperately to hold on to their lands. With the Spanish Armada threatening her in the background, the English queen, Elizabeth I, set out to subdue them. A few weeks before his fifteenth birthday, Red Hugh was captured and taken to Dublin Castle. He was held as hostage to ensure the good behaviour of his father, chief of the powerful O'Donnell clan of Donegal. After several years, one freezing winter's night the chance of escape seemed to come at last. But there were great risks …
Populaire auteurs
Cram101 Textbook Reviews (948) J.S. Bach (447) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (305) Collectif (268) Schrijf als eerste een recensie over dit item (259) Doug Gelbert (238) Princess of Patterns (211) Charles Dickens (209) R.B. Grimm (197) Carolyn Keene (187) Jules Verne (183) Philipp Winterberg (180) William Shakespeare (174) Youscribe (172) Lucas Nicolato (169) Edgar Allan Poe (166) Herman Melville (166) Anonymous (165) Gilad Soffer (164) Robert Louis Stevenson (159)Populaire gewichtsboeken
418 KB 425 KB 435 KB 459 KB 445 KB 439 KB 386 KB 413 KB 493 KB 432 KB 455 KB 471 KB 421 KB 451 KB 485 KB 472 KB 416 KB 369 KB 419 KB 427 KB