The Beacon at Alexandria - first US edition

by Gillian Bradshaw

When Charis learns that her father has betrothed her to the hated Roman governor Festinus, she enlists the aid of her brother and flees to Alexandria. There, disguised as a eunuch, she begins to study Hippocratic medicine under the tutelage of a patient Jewish physician. The young woman excels as a healer and her fame spreads. Political intrigues force her to frontier outposts of the Roman Empire where she practices as an army doctor. She succeeds in maintaining her disguise until she is captured and held prisoner by the Goths during their uprising against the Romans.

There are no previous owner's marks in the book, which has brown boards quarter bound with tan cloth, title in gold on the spine, maps decorate end papers.

The dust jacket price has not been clipped and would be fine except for a tiny 1/4 stray pen mark on the front edge of the DJ.