Graham Clews

Eboracum

The Village

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

It is A.D. 71, and Northern Britain is in turmoil. The tribes of Brigantia have chosen to follow the fortunes of the ageing king Venutius, rather than his one time consort, Cartimandua. Rome will no longer tolerate the king's constant warring, but is also unwilling to restore 'Catey' to her throne. Petilius Cerialis, Britannia's governor, has ordered the building of a fortress where two rivers meet in the underbelly of Venutius's kingdom: a place that Rome will one day call Eboracvm. From there, he is determined once and for all to halt the endless rebellion of the northern tribes... Set against the founding of York and the real life characters who created the great city, Eboracvm: The Village, tells of the struggle of two families: the minor chieftain Cethen Lamh-fada, who lives with his kin at the fork in the rivers; and the Roman engineer Gaius Sabinius, who arrives with orders that will ultimately drive Cethen from his home. The Village is unique in its approach to the history of the times. While the narrative is replete with action and fact, it focuses on the manner in which Britons and Romans truly would have dealt with hardship and danger. These are the people who were our ancestors, warts and all. There are no reckless heroes and no evil villains; just everyday people with familiar problems that echo down through the centuries.

Produktdetails

• Eboracum Nr.1
• Verlag: PageMaster Publication Services
• Seitenzahl: 462
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 664g
• ISBN-13: 9781988048239
• ISBN-10: 1988048230
• Artikelnr.: 60657297

Autorenporträt

Born in York, England, in 1942, Graham emigrated to Canada in 1956 with his family and met his wife Marie in high school. They were married in 1963 and have three children, and six grand children. Graham articled in Edmonton with one of the root firms of KPMG, and obtained the professional designation of Chartered Accountant in 1966. His professional career spanned forty three years. During the first four years he worked in industry, employed by corporations rather than a public accounting office. He held financial management positions in the chemical industry in Edmonton and Montreal (Chemcell Limited), and the aviation and plastics industry (Northwest Industries Ltd.). A strong desire (calling?) to live in the country moved Graham and Marie to Westlock in 1971, and he returned to public accounting. In January of 2009, he retired as senior partner of the firm Clews, Shoemaker, Viney and Friesen. Graham and Marie also owned and operated a farm in the Westlock area, small by Alberta standards: a cow/calf operation with about sixty cows. Over the years, he has also operated a home manufacturing plant building log homes in some of the remotest parts of Alberta, and served as co-chairman of a publicly traded gold company (after a bitter proxy fight). He served seventeen years with the Canadian Armed Forces Reserve, retiring as a captain on reaching the age of fifty-five. Graham has also been quite active in the community, serving on the Tawatinaw Valley Ski Board, the Westlock Library Board, the Westlock Drama Society, the Westlock Scholarship Board, the Westlock Cultural Arts Society, and as a cub master in the Boy Scouts of Canada. He has also served as president of the local Provincial Progressive Conservative Association, the Army Cadet League of Alberta (also on the national board of governors), and the Rotary Club of Westlock. Memberships past and/or present include the Rotary Club, the Edmonton Branch of the Winston Churchill Society, Westlock Independence Network (for the disabled), and Mensa Canada.