The Powder of Death: An explosive discovery will change the world for ever: 2 - Brossura

Stockwin, Julian

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0749020849 ISBN 13: 9780749020842

Casa editrice: Allison & Busby, 2017

Riassunto

1261. Oxford, England. An envoy returns from the land of the Tartars to meet with an English scholar and share a deadly secret. The two men vow that the knowledge of gunpowder must die with them as the consequences are otherwise too fatal to contemplate. 1290. Hurnwych Green, England. After his quiet life is shattered by tragedy, blacksmith Jared begins a pilgrimage to the Promised Land. Along the way he is invited to join the Knights Hospitallers as their blacksmith on a holy crusade for King Edward. The adventure that follows sees Jared encounter men from distant Cathay who harbour the secret of huo yao, and so begins one man’s obsession with the powder of death and a king’s determination to change the very nature of warfare . . .

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L'autore:

At the age of fourteen, Julian Stockwin was sent to Indefatigable, a tough sea-training school. He joined the Royal Navy aged fifteen. Julian has written 14 books to date in the Kydd series of historical adventure fiction, as well as a non-fiction book, 'Stockwin's Maritime Miscellany.' He lives in Plymouth with his wife Kathy.

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• Editore: Allison & Busby
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0749020849
• ISBN 13: 9780749020842
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 444