Source: Remus – Magazine for the Young Friends of the British Museum
Category: The Eagle of the Ninth
Twitter users read and enjoy Rosemary Sutcliff’s The Eagle of the Ninth
Happily Twitter users sometimes (and increasingly) mention reading and enjoying Rosemary Sutcliff’s The Eagle of the Ninth. Most recently, for example, shanaqui (‘I read a lot’) and salariyabookco (an award winning independent book publisher). We are trying to encourage the use of the hashtag #teotn for both the book and the film. Maybe one day – when the film comes out? – it will even ‘trend‘! Meanwhile please spread the word to encourage reading of The Eagle of the Ninth, wherever, and hashtag or not!
The gift of a good story from Rosemary Sutcliff | The Eagle of the Ninth | The Boston Globe
Carlo Rotella writes in the Boston Globe about buying for her children for Christmas “generations-tested” books, including Rosemary Sutcliff’s classic historical novel The Eagle of the Ninth:
… my daughters, being kids, are into Christmas, and I have some other gift-giving obligations, so every year on the Saturday morning before Christmas I come down off the mountain and make a trip downtown to buy presents. My main destination is a bookstore, and as soon as I get there I start feeling better about things. The place is always packed during the days before Christmas with a crowd that radiates excitement and contentment, and that itself is encouraging. People still read, and still regard the giving and receiving of books as something special.
And the old long-haul reliables I remember from childhood, generations-tested books you can read to your kids when they’re little and they can then read for themselves and go on rereading into adolescence and beyond, are still for sale, often in fine new editions: books like Scott O’Dell’s “Island of the Blue Dolphins,” Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House books, John Dennis Fitzgerald’s Great Brain books, Mark Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn,” J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit,” Rosemary Sutcliff’s Roman adventure “The Eagle of the Ninth,” Harper Lee’s “To Kill A Mockingbird,” Charles Portis’s great comic Western “True Grit.”
Cruachan broods over The Eagle of the Ninth
In Rosemary Sutcliff’s classic children’s novel The Eagle of the Ninth, the protagonist Marcus and his friend Esca (freed from slavery by Marcus) travel to the wild lands of Caledonia (northern Scotland) to search for the lost Eagle of the Ninth. On their travels, they pass through many mountain ranges and lochs. One of these Mountains is Ben Cruachan, the highest point in Argyll and Bute.
And to the north, brooding over the whole scene, rose Cruachan, sombre, cloaked in shadows, crested with mist; Cruachan, the shield-boss of the world.
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 