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Genre/Form: | Young adult nonfiction Juvenile works Legends Juvenile literature |
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Named Person: | Gilgamesh, (Legendary character); Gilgamesh, (Legendary character); Gilgamesh, (Legendary character) |
Material Type: | Elementary and junior high school |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Geraldine McCaughrean; David Parkins |
ISBN: | 0802852629 9780802852625 |
OCLC Number: | 51818744 |
Target Audience: | 9 and up. |
Description: | 95 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm |
Contents: | Heaven sent -- Tamed by a kiss -- Do or die -- Marry me -- Death -- Afraid of nothing -- Give up -- Faraway -- The bread of sorrow -- The plant of life -- Home -- The twelfth tablet. |
Other Titles: | Gilgamesh the hero |
Responsibility: | retold by Geraldine McCaughrean ; illustrated by David Parkins. |
Abstract:
A retelling, based on seventh-century B.C. Assyrian clay tablets, of the wanderings and adventures of the god king, Gilgamesh, who ruled in ancient Mesopotamia (now Iraq) in about 2700 B.C., and of his faithful companion, Enkidu.
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