The Forest - Edward Rutherfurd [0]
EDWARD RUTHERFURD
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Copyright © Edward Rutherfurd 2000
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This novel is a work of fiction. Names and characters are the product of the author’s imagination and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental
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Contents
Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
About the Author
Also by Edward Ruthurfurd
Preface
Acknowledgements
Maps
The Rufus Stone
The Hunt
Beaulieu
Lymington
The Armada Tree
Alice
Albion Park
Pride of the Forest
The Forest
This book is dedicated to the New Forest Museum.
An inspiration and a joy.
THE FOREST
Edward Rutherfurd was born in Salisbury and educated in Wiltshire and Cambridge. He did live in New York, but returned to his roots to research and write his vast, bestselling saga, Sarum, based on the history of Salisbury. Russka, his second novel, tells the sweeping history of Russia from the Cossack horsemen of the steppes to the epic events of the Bolshevik revolution. His third novel, London, is the remarkable story of the greatest city on earth, bringing all the richness of London’s past unforgettably to life. In his fourth novel, The Forest, Rutherfurd weaves the history and legends of the New Forest into compelling form. Sarum, Russka, London, The Forest, Dublin, Ireland Awakening and New York are all available in Arrow.
Also by Edward Ruthurfurd
Sarum
Russka
London
Dublin: Foundation
Ireland Awakening
New York
PREFACE
THE FOREST is a novel. The families whose fortunes the story follows are fictitious, as are their parts in the historical events described. I have tried, however, at all times to set their stories amongst people and events that either did exist or might have done.
Albion House, Albion Park and the hamlet of Oakley are invented. All other places in the book are real. Most of these New Forest place-names have remained constant for a thousand years: where they have changed, I have used the names by which they are known today. Similarly, though I have tried to avoid anachronisms, it has occasionally been necessary to use a modern term where a historical one would only confuse the reader.
The family of Albion is invented. Cola the huntsman did exist, however, though Walter Tyrrell’s cousin Adela did not. The name of Seagull is pure invention; Totton and Furzey are local place-names. The element Puck is often found in southern English place-names, from which I have constructed Puckle. Martell appears both in place-names and in medieval records and suggests a knightly