During the Middle Ages, Arabic, Turkish, Indus and Chinese cultures produced the world's best scientists, astronomers, mathematicians, physicians, poets and inventors at a time when Europe suffered through the Dark Ages. In 1057, a Viking slave ship kidnaps a youth off a beach in Wales and a boy from Normandy and sells them on an eastern slave market to a khan, emperor of 10 walled cities on the Silk Road. They are trained as horse fighters, then educated, one as a physician and the other an expert in agriculture and animal husbandry. They return to William the Conqueror's Britannia and its immeasurable brutality. Though skilled fighters with the short sword and compound bow and capable of brutish behavior themselves, their intellect has been leavened by eastern knowledge, philosophy and religion. Declared heretics before the Norman court, they are released to trek across Britannia. They encounter assassins, Norman warriors, Saxon rebels and a bandit Welsh longbowman. History and the slavery of feudal England unfold as they fight their way to claim a fiefdom in the warring frontier of Wales.
John Wright was born in 1941 in Bruce County, Ontario Canada. Graduate of Ryerson College in journalism, Wright was a newspaper reporter and columnist for more than 25 years around his province. He is the winner of eight provincial writing awards and one Canadian national outdoor writing award. When he retired, he and his wife Elaine bought a 35-foot sailboat and cruised the Bahamas for some years. While travelling through Wales, he came across an historic reference that was to be the basis of his medieval tale of two men from the East. He submitted his first manuscript of THE HEALER to an Amazon novel writing contest which he did not win but scored in the top 20 finalist. It encouraged him to go on. Having put 1066 THE HEALER, and now 1066 KNIGHT HARALDE on Amazon and Kindle, he will complete his 1066 trilogy. Today, he and Elaine are retired and live in their own home overlooking Lake Huron in Ontario, Canada. At present, he is working on the third book, THE WELSLH LORDS.
