Blood of Tyrants — Naomi Novik
Blood of Tyrants
Naomi NovikHARPER COLLINS
Blood of Tyrants
Naomi NovikPublisher HarperCollins UK The final instalment of Robin Hobbs Sunday Times best selling series The Rain Wild Chronicles Dragon blood and scales dragon liver and eyes and teeth All required ingredients for medicines with near miraculous healing powers The legendary blue dragon Tintaglia is dying of wounds inflicted by hunters sent by the Duke of Chalced who meanwhile preserves his dwindling life by consuming the blood of the dragons poet Selden Vestrit If Tintaglia perishes her ancestral memories will die with her And the dragons in the ancient city of Kelsingra will lose the secret knowledge they need to survive Their keepers immerse themselves in the dangerously addictive memory stone records of the city in the hope of recovering the Elderling magic that once allowed humans and dragons to co exist In doing so they risk losing their own identities even their liv Yayınevi HARPER COLLINS Yazar NAOMI NOVIK Dil İNGİLİZCE Sayfa Sayısı 544 SAYFA Yıl 2016
NÜANS YAYINEVİ
Naomi Novik s beloved Temeraire series a brilliant combination of fantasy and history that reimagines the Napoleonic wars as fought with the aid of intelligent dragons is a twenty first century classic Shipwrecked and cast ashore in Japan with no memory of Temeraire or his own experiences as an English aviator Laurence finds himself tangled in deadly political intrigues that threaten not only his own life but England s already precarious position in the Far East Age old enmities and suspicions have turned the entire region into a powder keg ready to erupt at the slightest spark a spark that Laurence and Temeraire may unwittingly provide leaving Britain faced with new enemies just when they most desperately need allies instead For to the west another wider conflagration looms Napoleon has turned on his former ally the emperor Alexander of Russia and is even now leading the largest army the world has ever seen to add that country to his list of conquests It is there outside the gates of Moscow that a reunited Laurence and Temeraire along with some unexpected allies and old friends will face their ultimate challenge and learn whether or not there are stronger ties than memory
Harper Collins
Naomi Novik s beloved Temeraire series a brilliant combination of fantasy and history that reimagines the Napoleonic wars as fought with the aid of intelligent dragons is a twenty first century classic Shipwrecked and cast ashore in Japan with no memory of Temeraire or his own experiences as an English aviator Laurence finds himself tangled in deadly political intrigues that threaten not only his own life but England s already precarious position in the Far East Age old enmities and suspicions have turned the entire region into a powder keg ready to erupt at the slightest spark a spark that Laurence and Temeraire may unwittingly provide leaving Britain faced with new enemies just when they most desperately need allies instead For to the west another wider conflagration looms Napoleon has turned on his former ally the emperor Alexander of Russia and is even now leading the largest army the world has ever seen to add that country to his list of conquests It is there outside the gates of Moscow that a reunited Laurence and Temeraire along with some unexpected allies and old friends will face their ultimate challenge and learn whether or not there are stronger ties than memory