The Powder of Death: An explosive discovery will change the world for ever (Moments of History, 2, Band 2) - Softcover

Buch 2 von 2: Moments of History

Stockwin, Julian (Author)

 
9780749020842: The Powder of Death: An explosive discovery will change the world for ever (Moments of History, 2, Band 2)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0749020849 ISBN 13: 9780749020842
Verlag: Allison & Busby, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

The Silk Tree, Julian Stockwin’s first stand-alone novel, was published by Allison & Busby in November 2014.

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 . . .

This is the second in a sequence of stand-alone novels with pivotal historical discoveries at their dramatic core – this instalment focused on the lethal knowledge of gunpowder which made primitive cannon possible.

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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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Verlag
Allison & Busby
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0749020849
ISBN 13 
9780749020842
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
384
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