Outcast Author:Rosemary Sutcliff Beric, the infant son of a Roman soldier and the only survivor of a wreck on the treacherous coast of southeast Britain, grew up with a Briton tribe. But to his foster people he remained an alien, one of the Red Crests. When bad times came, the trib held him responsible and cast him out, leading Beric to a condemned life on the rowing benches of... more » a Roman galley.
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