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The Beggar of Volubilis (Roman Mysteries, Book 14) by Caroline Lawrence THE BEGGAR OF VOLUBILIS PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Caroline Lawrence,Andrew Davidson | 272 pages | 01 Nov 2009 | Hachette Children's Group | 9781842556047 | English | London, United Kingdom The Beggar of Volubilis (Roman Mysteries, book 14) by Caroline Lawrence Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Main article: Roman Mysteries TV series. The Roman Mysteries by Caroline Lawrence. Roman Mysteries. Hidden categories: Articles needing additional references from July All articles needing additional references Use dmy dates from July All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from July Namespaces Article Talk. Views Read Edit View history. Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file. Download as PDF Printable version. In Volubilis they find both Gaius and the emerald, but it is not as easy to take them back to Italy as they had supposed. During the adventure, they meet a woman who claims to be descended from Cleopatra and a man who could be the late emperor Nero. Sign In Don't have an account? Start a Wiki. It is published by Orion Books. This article is a stub. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Jun 01, Guo added it. I didn't notice this when I first read this book as a child, but a few years later I realized this book contains several tropes with regards to travelling to that region Local chieftain has several wives, and wive number 4 is only 9 years old. Heads get chopped off, no questions asked. But there is always a downside. People in some far-flung corner of the empire do not realize that the prev I didn't notice this when I first read this book as a child, but a few years later I realized this book contains several tropes with regards to travelling to that region People in some far-flung corner of the empire do not realize that the previous emperor has died and someone has replaced him. This is more general though. Of course, a novel will become too derivative if too many of these are incorporated into one book. This one is still subtle enough to be readable, for a child at least. Mar 15, Dee Paisley rated it really liked it Shelves: ancients. Such a good story teaching history and geography along with the culture and solving problems. May 12, Elizabeth added it. This book was good. It had just the right amount of suspense. Dec 10, Paula rated it liked it. I wasn't happy that the main characters were so willing to be thieves no matter whether it was at the direction of the emperor or not. Feb 22, Mark rated it liked it. I didn't like the book that much. Our adventurous four get a letter to go on mission for the emperor Titus to find a large and valuable emerald called the Eye of Nero in Africa. Conveniently the mission location is exactly coinciding with the last known location of her runaway uncle Gaeus in Volubilis, in modern Morocco. This is the book Flavia gets a marriage proposal from Floppy. So she declines the proposal. Poor Flaccus t Our adventurous four get a letter to go on mission for the emperor Titus to find a large and valuable emerald called the Eye of Nero in Africa. Poor Flaccus takes it as a temporary thing luckily. He is very patient with precocious Flavia who is only a child of twelve. So the children hitch a ride with another ship and that one goes to Sabbrath modern Libya where they join a pantomime troupe and join a camel train to Volubilis. They travel a month through savanna and dessert. Along the way Flavia gets a second marriage proposal to be child-wife five to a particularly revolting Arab sheik. Flavia discovers mirages, sandstorms, getting lost in the dessert while Nubia is in her element. When they get to Volubilis the children encounter a stinky beggar crawling with lice who tells them where her missing Uncle is. They discover that the beggar who has a patrician accent speaks many languages and was a scribe of emperor Nero. Some turn out better and some worse. Feb 07, Mara rated it it was ok Shelves: books-to-buy , historical-fiction , mystery , 2-stars. This was not the most exciting of the collection, and it could have been. First off, it begins rather abruptly with Flavia and Nubia hunting in the woods and taking a sudden vow to never marry. Then we're launched into an African adventure that has lots of foreshadowing of what may happen. But any hints of ominous doings is pretty much glossed over with "it-was-coincidence" explanations in the end, and everyone goes home happy. The beggar does not play as big of a role as one might suppose, the This was not the most exciting of the collection, and it could have been. The beggar does not play as big of a role as one might suppose, the gem is nothing especially mysterious or amazing, and the possibility of Nero being alive barely comes into play. In fact, the whole "major" plotline felt more like a sub-plot. In-between adventures take up most of the time, and even these are not very entertaining. Flavia gets lost in the desert in one of the most abrupt and random ways I've read in a long time. It was painfully obvious that the Author inserted this for action's sake. Nothing important happens, nothing exciting happens. Flavia has a dream that could have taken place without her having to get lost in the desert due to her own stupidity. Seriously - who comes back from a privy break, suddenly sees a vast expanse of water in the desert's distance, and decides to go chase after it? Especially when they suspect it might be a mirage? Even when I was younger, I would have been disappointed with this volume. I can only hope that some of the events pertaining to Nero's Eye eventually resurface in later installments, thus justifying the lack of a satisfying ending. Flavia and her friends have been summoned to Africa to find an emerald called 'Nero's Eye' which Titus, the emperor of Rome, needs to maintain power. It is said that whoever owns Nero's Eye is fit to be king, so Titus desperately needs it! Young Roman girl Flavia Gemina and her group of intelligent detectives are determined to find it if Titus's power is at stake. The Beggar of Volubilis | Roman Mysteries Wiki | Fandom In the weeks of travel they become accomplished performers, learn to handle camels and discover the dangers as well as the beauties of the desert. In Volubilis they find both Gaius and the emerald, but it is not as easy to take them back to Italy as they had supposed. During the adventure, they meet a woman who claims to be descended from Cleopatra and a man who could be the late emperor Nero. Sign In Don't have an account? Start a Wiki. It is published by Orion Books. This article is a stub. You can help Roman Mysteries Wiki by expanding it. Categories :. He is very patient with precocious Flavia who is only a child of twelve. So the children hitch a ride with another ship and that one goes to Sabbrath modern Libya where they join a pantomime troupe and join a camel train to Volubilis. They travel a month through savanna and dessert. Along the way Flavia gets a second marriage proposal to be child-wife five to a particularly revolting Arab sheik. Flavia discovers mirages, sandstorms, getting lost in the dessert while Nubia is in her element. When they get to Volubilis the children encounter a stinky beggar crawling with lice who tells them where her missing Uncle is. They discover that the beggar who has a patrician accent speaks many languages and was a scribe of emperor Nero. Some turn out better and some worse. Feb 07, Mara rated it it was ok Shelves: books-to-buy , historical-fiction , mystery , 2-stars. This was not the most exciting of the collection, and it could have been. First off, it begins rather abruptly with Flavia and Nubia hunting in the woods and taking a sudden vow to never marry. Then we're launched into an African adventure that has lots of foreshadowing of what may happen. But any hints of ominous doings is pretty much glossed over with "it-was-coincidence" explanations in the end, and everyone goes home happy. The beggar does not play as big of a role as one might suppose, the This was not the most exciting of the collection, and it could have been. The beggar does not play as big of a role as one might suppose, the gem is nothing especially mysterious or amazing, and the possibility of Nero being alive barely comes into play. In fact, the whole "major" plotline felt more like a sub-plot. In-between adventures take up most of the time, and even these are not very entertaining. Flavia gets lost in the desert in one of the most abrupt and random ways I've read in a long time. It was painfully obvious that the Author inserted this for action's sake. Nothing important happens, nothing exciting happens. Flavia has a dream that could have taken place without her having to get lost in the desert due to her own stupidity. Seriously - who comes back from a privy break, suddenly sees a vast expanse of water in the desert's distance, and decides to go chase after it? Especially when they suspect it might be a mirage? Even when I was younger, I would have been disappointed with this volume.
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