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What were castles for?

  • Packed with fun, facts and entertaining illustrations.
  • Published in association with English Heritage
  • Newly revised with Internet-links to relevant Web sites
Paperback
Price: $6.95 | ISBN: 9780746052563
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Information

Age:

6+

Pages:

32 pages

Dimensions:

240 x 205 mm

Author/Editor:

Phil Roxbee Cox

Illustrator:

Sue Stitt

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Pages 18-19 [73Kb]

Summary

Find out who built castles, what knights did and what really went on inside castle walls in this entertaining and colourful look at medieval life. Packed full of fun and facts about life in castle times, this book also has Internet-links to young and relevant Web sites.

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