The cloth hardcover has heavy wear on the covers, corners, and edges. The binding is mostly good, it is cracked on pgs. 82/83. The pages are clean, no writing, highlighting, or underlining. Light foxing on some pages. 📚 Check out my shop for more We Were There & Landmark Books! Synopsis | Out of the mist of early English history emerges an exciting and moving story of the boy Orlex, and sister Una, and his friend Mandubracius, Prince of the Trinovantes tribe. The time is 55 B.C., and the great Roman general, Caesar, is preparing to invade the mysterious, unknown isle called Briton. News of the invasion has traveled ahead of this approaching fleet, and the scattered English tribes are making ready either to fight or to join the invaders. Orlex and Mandubracius are sent to greet the emissary of Caesar. Captured on the way back by enemy Kentish tribesmen, Orlex, by a trick, frees the prince. Orlex himself eventually reaches Caesar and joins the great general’s forces in Rome. Una, too, through a strange turn of fate, finds herself in Rome – a place of endless wonder to the two cave-dwelling children from Briton. The story of their exciting adventures in Rome and of Caesar’s thundering conquest of Briton is, in effect, the story of one great step in the march of civilization. —From dust jacket ABOUT THE SERIES | Are easy to read and provide exciting, entertaining stories, based upon true historic events. Each book tells the exciting story of two young persons? adventures during some of history’s most dramatic events written by top authors and illustrated by top artists. Each story is checked for factual accuracy by an outstanding authority on this particular phase of our history. Though written simply enough for young readers, they make interesting reading for boys and girls well into their teens. B-128