The White Isle is Britain–a barbaric land ot the patrician Claudian family exiled from Hadrian's Rome, but an island of strange enchantment and stirring adventures to Lavinia, their daughter, whoes story Caroline Dale Snedeker tells in one of her finest books.

The story of Lavinia and her family, of their long, arduous and constantly exciting trip through Gaul to the farthest province of the empire, begins in Rome and comes to a romantic climax in the new home. It is one of the first books to bring to young people today a spirited picture of Roman life in Gaul and Britain.

Because Favonius, Lavinia's father, had been too much in sympathy witth the old Republic he had incurred the Emporor's disfavor, and was suddenly appointed legauts to far-away Britain. So after sad farewells and a suddenly cancelled wedding the whole family began their long journy along the Roman roads still famed roday.

Lavinia's new experiences and her romance with a British-born Roman, set in the days of early Christianity, combine to make a superb historical novel.

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