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With the bravura storytelling and pungent authenticity of detail she brought to her acclaimed Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett, grande dame of the historical novel, presents The House of Niccol series. The time is the 15th century, when intrepid merchants became the new knighthood of Europe.... read more
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“It began with the sea, and September sunlight, and three young men lying stripped to their doublets in the Duke of Burgundy's bath.”
First Sentence
FROM VENICE to Cathay, from Seville to the Gold Coast of Africa, men anchored their ships and opened their ledgers and weighed one thing against another as if nothing would ever change.
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- Dorothy Dunnett (Author)
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