Constantinople

Исторические приключения, Путешествия и география

Автор: Cameron Christian

Серия: Tom Swan and the Head of St George #3

Язык: английский

Год: 2012

Страниц: 17

Издатель: Orion Books

ISBN: 978 1 4091 2737 6

Город: London

Статус: Закончена

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Аннотация

1450s France. A young Englishman, Tom Swan, is kneeling in the dirt, waiting to be killed by the French who've taken him captive.

He's not a professional soldier. He's really a merchant and a scholar looking for remnants of Ancient Greece and Rome - temples, graves, pottery, fabulous animals, unicorn horns. But he also has a real talent for ending up in the midst of violence when he didn't mean to. Having used his wits to escape execution, he begins a series of adventures that take him to street duels in Italy, meetings with remarkable men - from Leonardo Da Vinci to Vlad Dracula - and from the intrigues of the War of the Roses to the fall of Constantinople.