268 pages
English language
Published Jan. 2, 1987 by Delacorte Press.
Captives of time
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Orphaned by the brutal murder of their parents, Anne and her gentle but mute brother suffer great hardships as they travel across a dangerous, pestilence-ridden Europe to their uncle, an armorer and clockmaker, and, after his death, to a distant city to deliver the commissioned plans of his precious clock.
Subjects
- Middle Ages -- Fiction.
- Survival -- Fiction.
- Clocks and watches -- Fiction.