Travel Light

✍ Scribed by Mitchison, Naomi

• Book ID: 109185377
• Publisher: Small Beer Press
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 66 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781931520140

✦ Synopsis

"Travel Light is the story of Halla, a girl born to a king but cast out onto the hills to die. She lives among bears; she lives among dragons. But the time of dragons is passing, and Odin All-Father offers Halla a choice: Will she stay dragonish and hoard wealth and possessions, or will she travel light?"
--Amal El-Mohtar, NPR, You Must Read This
From the dark ages to modern times, from the dragons of medieval forests to Constantinople, this is a fantastic and philosophical fairy-tale journey that will appeal to fans of Harry Potter, Diana Wynne Jones, and T. H. White's The Sword in the Stone.
"No one knows better how to spin a fairy tale than Naomi Mitchison."--The Observer
"Read it now."--Ursula K. Le Guin
"You will love this book."--Holly Black
"The enchantments of Travel Light contain more truth, more straight talking, a grittier, harder-edged view of the world than any of the mundane descriptions of daily life you...