The Humpherys Family

The Wanderers
Record Added: 9/15/2015
Illustrator Trina Schart Hyman
Setting Ireland
Topic Historical Fiction
 History: Great Britain, I
Publisher Macmillan and Co.
ISBN 1127497189   Year 1972
Age 13-YA   Pages 112
Description Printed dustjacket
  
Father Ambrosius, the Wanderer, finds a boy and a dog after a Viking raid. They join him. Shortly there after a fourth boy Harold Fairhair who is being stoned to death joins them. They travel over Ireland and this strange father seems able to do things which border on magic or mystical.

His bag of food never runs out. He starts fires with his bare hands. And he has a strange way with people. In fact all four wanderers touch all they meet with their gentle wisdom - and no one is quite the same as before. They find a world of wonder at Father Ambrosius' hands.
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