Gods and warriors

By Michelle Paver

Subjects: History, Prehistoric peoples, Bronze age, Voyages and travels, Fiction, Gods, Human-animal communication

Description: In the turbulent world of the Mediterranean Bronze Age, Hylas, a lowly twelve-year-old goatherd, thief, and outsider, journeys from the Greek mountains to Crete and Egypt, making allies with animals, battling tyranny, and withstanding the elemental powers of the gods of land and sea.