Mad Ship (Liveship Traders) - Hardcover

Hobb, Robin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0553103334 ISBN 13: 9780553103335

Verlag: Spectra, 1999

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Book by Robin Hobb

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A second volume in the popular Liveship Traders trilogy again visits the exotic slave-trading city of Bingtown, where Althea Vestrit's family Liveship, Vivacia, has been taken by the pirate Kennit, leading to a dangerous plan involving an insane Liveship.

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p of Magic, the breathtaking first volume in her new fantasy trilogy, Robin Hobb wrote of the Liveship Traders of Bingtown. Now a new tide of glory and terror sweeps forward the story of the proud Vestrit clan, their priceless liveship Vivacia, and all who strive to possess her.

"If Patrick O'Brian were to turn to writing fantasy, he might produce something like this," raves Booklist, and truer words have never been spoken. This is a tale of the Old Traders of Bingtown and their rare magic ships--carved from sentient wizardwood that bonds them mystically with those who sail them. Theirs is an ancient tradition, but one that is slowly eroding under the harsh realities of a cold new order.

For these once proud Traders, it is a humbling lesson to learn that the foundations of their world, which had seemed immutable, are resting on shifting sands. Their corrupt ruler is deeding away their ancestral lands to upstart newcomers, and a growing traffic in

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• Verlag: Spectra
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0553103334
• ISBN 13: 9780553103335
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 704