About this item
Hay pocos lugares en Inglaterra tan evocadores y misteriosos como New Forest, una vasta zona boscosa situada junto a la costa del sur del pas. A lo largo de los siglos, este bosque ha sido el escenario de las actividades mas diversas: sus tierras acogieron la brujera y el contrabando, pero tambin sirvieron como coto de caza a los reyes sajones y normandos, y sus robles se emplearon para la construccin de la armada de Nelson. Personajes de todo tipo y extraccin social se asentaron en estos parajes, vidas que se entretejieron llevadas por enemistades, lealtades, guerras, pasiones e incluso crmenes que socavaron los cimientos de la sociedad en que se perpetraron. / A sprawling tome that combines fact with fiction and covers 900 years in the history of New Forest, a 100,000-acre woodland in southern England... Rutherfurd sketches the histories of six fictional families, ranging from aristocrats to peasants, who have lived in the forest for generations...
About the Author
Edward Rutherfurd was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, and educated at Cambridge University and Stanford University in California. His first book, Sarum was based on the history of Salisbury. London, Russka,The Forest, Dublin and Ireland Awakening all draw on finely researched details of social history. Edward Rutherford has spent much of the last 30 years living in New York and Conneticut. He has an American wife and two American educated children and has served on a New York co-op board.
