By Wayne Grant
Roland Inness is a peasant boy with an strange talent—and a mystery. He has realized the artwork of creating a longbow and the ability to exploit it with lethal accuracy. Why needs to this be stored mystery? The Normans rule England with their armored knights and a well-aimed longbow can pierce that armor. ownership of the weapon is a dangling offense and whilst Roland takes the incorrect deer at the improper Lord’s land he has to escape for his lifestyles.
His flight will take him from the excessive hills of the English midlands to the wild frontier with Wales and directly to the courtroom of Richard the Lionheart. alongside the way in which he's hunted by means of a paid killer, aided by way of an odd monk named Tuck, and brought in through a gruff Norman knight, who values his ability with the bow. That ability and his braveness could be sorely demonstrated as he fights to earn the belief of his new grasp.
As King Richard celebrates his coronation, Roland faces outdated enemies he proposal he had left in the back of and needs to attempt his ability at a royal archery event opposed to the best bowmen in England, to incorporate the favourite, Sir Robin of Loxley.
A mixture of historical past, fable and excessive experience, LONGBOW follows the adventure of Roland Inness as he seeks to discover a spot for himself in a restive nation and turn into a guy in a brutal age.
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