Ranger's Apprentice: The Early Years · Book 1

The Tournament at Gorlan

by John Flanagan

Published
1 January 2015
Pages
400
ISBN-13
9780142427323
Type
novel

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Cover of The Tournament at Gorlan

About this book

The Tournament at Gorlan opened John Flanagan's Ranger's Apprentice: The Early Years in 2015, a 400-page prequel that follows Halt -- the gruff mentor of the main series' Will Treaty -- as a young man entering the Ranger Corps decades before the main story begins.

Its place in Ranger's Apprentice: The Early Years

The Tournament at Gorlan is book 1 in the Ranger's Apprentice: The Early Years series. It is followed by The Battle of Hackham Heath. See the full Ranger's Apprentice: The Early Years reading order.

A two-book prequel duology telling the story of Halt -- the gruff, unshakeable Ranger who mentors Will Treaty in the main Ranger's Apprentice series -- decades earlier, as a young man himself entering the Ranger Corps and fighting in the civil war that shaped the kingdom of Araluen he later serves. Where the main series is Will's coming-of-age story, this duology is Halt's, filling in the history the original books only ever gestured at: his origins, his early partnership with the young Crowley (who becomes the…

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