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by Jack Whyte (Author) "WE STOOD TOGETHER on the forward deck of a galley that moved slowly forward through a bright, still September morning, mere months after the murderous..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 351 pages
  • Publisher: Saint Martin's Press Inc. (15 Jul 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 031286597X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0312865979
  • Product Dimensions: 23.9 x 16.3 x 3.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 392,209 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Merlyn's young nephew, Arthur is in danger. A failed assassination attempt forces Merlyn to take Arthur somewhere safe - to an abandoned Roman fort far from Camulod. Arthur is just a boy yet soon he must claim the sword that is his birthright: Excalibur. He must be ready, but at what cost?
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WE STOOD TOGETHER on the forward deck of a galley that moved slowly forward through a bright, still September morning, mere months after the murderous incident that had almost taken the life of one of our number and had subsequently forced us to flee from Camulod in search of the safety we ought to have enjoyed at home. Read the first page
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4.0 out of 5 stars The unfolding of time., 3 Feb 2002
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This review is from: The Fort at River's Bend (The Camulod Chronicles) (Mass Market Paperback)
This book continues the story of Merlyn's quest to raise Arthur to be a great warrior and King. Due to an attempt on the young Arthur's life, Merlyn is forced to flee their home of Camulod and take refuge in the North of England.
Although the main character remains Merlyn, the star of the book turns out to be Arthur, who begins to show flashes of inspired thought. This encourages the reader to believe that Arthur will indeed be a great king.
I found the conversations between Merlyn and young Arthur to be the most thought provoking aspects of the book. In particular his thoughts about death toward the end of the book.
I am disappointed though that the author didn't take the trouble to develop a unique character for Tressa (who becomes Merlyn's mistress). He seems to just paste her in as a sort of twin of Shelagh, but this doesn't work for me and she just comes across as a non entity...who I rather hope will be killed off in the next book!
Overall this is a more gentle story than the previous two, with less killing. Time unfolds gently and because of this I enjoyed this book the most out of the three chronicles I have read so far. However, even in this book we are given a salutory reminder that freedom has a price and is always under threat, something we tend to forget in our modern world.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Fifth Book in the Camulod Series, 7 Jan 2008
By J. Chippindale (England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Fort at Rivers Bend (Camulod Chronicles) (Paperback)

Jack Whyte was born and raised in Scotland, but has lived in Canada for the last forty odd years. He is the author of the Camulod series of books and has just had published the first in a trilogy about probably the most famous Order of knights, ever to come through the pages of history, the Knights Templar.

This is the fifth volume in the continuation of the Camulod Chronicles a series of novels about the Arthurian legends. But anyone expecting the conventional, or a Hollywood slant on the legend of Arthur, i.e. knights riding around on destriers in full body armour, something that was invented several hundred years after Arthur had gone to his grave, if he ever existed in the first place, will be in for a sharp shock.

The books are set in the 5th century AD a much more likely time for Arthur to have existed, a time when Britain, although free of the Romans, who had gone back across the channel to Rome, was still very much influenced by their occupation. Because of their different interpretation of the Arthurian legend some reader's may not take to the series. Personally I found the books a refreshing change and much more in line with my own feelings on Arthur and whether he ever existed or not. I certainly found the author's approach to the subject more plausible than many.

The title of this book makes it sound like a Western novel, but in fact is the name of the place, a ruined fort, where Merlyn has taken Arthur and his boyhood companions after a failed attempt on Arthur's life. Merlyn is faced with the task of educating Arthur, the young man whose destiny is to be the future king of the Britons.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Fort at River's Bend, 3 Nov 2002
By R N DURRANT (Gosport, Hampshire United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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As a school-boy I was introduced to the Arthurian legends by the Thomas Mallory version, all knights in shining armour and quests. Jack Whyte has joined a very select group of authors, such as Stephen Lawhead, Rosmary Sutcliff and Bernard Cornwall. to name just a few, these brilliant writers have brought alive an era of which we knew very little. I, after having read these versions have a deeper insight into this period of English history. These authors have worked extremely hard with their research and have woven wonderful stories,that to my mind gives us an insight into life at that time.Historians have not proven otherwise.So I think the readers of these works should give a vote of thanks for the imaginative and fertile minds of these superb writers. I think Jack Whyte has written by far the most believable version of the Arthurian legend. His time frame is to my mind brilliantly conceived logic tells me this is when it must have been.As a reader I am well aware that the writer must take poetic licence after all primarily it is a Novel and not an historical record.I read a previous reveiw on this book and the reveiwer believed it was a waste of 400-odd pages, not so, for the Author has given us continuity and further insight into his characters.May I give my warmest thanks to Mr Whyte for the many hours of pleasure he has afforded me and I wait with anticipation for his next novel.
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