The Lost Trumpet (Polygon Lewis Grassic Gibbon Series)

ISBN: 0748662952

Author: Gibbon, Lewis Grassic

Condition: New

Product DescriptionA lesser-known side to Gibbon's fiction is his passion for writing about the world of history, archaeology, and myth. In this novel, the characters are all drawn to the deserts of Egypt, by the legendary Lost Trumpet, which was believed to have blown down the walls of Jericho.About the AuthorLewis Grassic Gibbon (James Leslie Mitchell) is one of the finest writers of the twentieth century. Born in Aberdeenshire in 1901, he died at the age of thirty-four, but during his short life, he was a prolific writer of novels, short stories, essays, and science fiction. His writing reflected his wide interest in religion, archaeology, history, politics and science. The Mearns Trilogy A Scots Quair is his most renowned work, and has become a landmark in Scottish literature.