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The Golden Dragon: Alfred the Great and His Times

By Alf J. Mapp Jr. author of Three Golden Ages: Discovering the Creative Secrets of Renaissanc, Bruce Carter (Illustrator)
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By Alf J. Mapp Jr. author of Three Golden Ages: Discovering the Creative Secrets of Renaissanc, Bruce Carter (Illustrator)
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King Alfred. Everybody knows that he is called “the Great,” but few remember why. Forgetfulness is strange, for few men have led lives so full of physical, mental, and spiritual adventure, or influenced in so many ways the lives of people in every part of the globe. The Golden Dragon is his fascinating and moving story, told afresh with the aid of recent archaeological evidence and research in four languages.

Alfred’s achievements have melted cynicism. Gibbon called him “the greatest of Engl...

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