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PUBLISHED
Grand Rapids, Mich. : Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 2003
DESCRIPTION
95 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780802852625 (hardcover : alk. paper), 0802852629 (hardcover : alk. paper), 9780802852625
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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
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
9 and up
780L