The unicorn road
av Martin Davies
The unicorn road
av Martin Davies (forfatter).
2009 Heftet
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An old Englishman sits by a harbour inSpain, hoping each day to hear what might have happened to the son he last saw as a child, many years before. He cannot die in peace until he knows. Dominic was sent to the royal court of Sicily, as page to the great scholarAntioch, and travelled with him on an expedition to the East, from which they never returned. Gradually, through meetings with travellers, the old man puts together most of the story and now the narrative of the expedition alternates with his own. The mission to the East is shrouded in secret motives and mysterious encounters. The boy is befriended by the party's interpreter, Venn, and embroiled in an exotic, dangerous adventure involving lost Cathar treasure, capture by the unimaginably cruel Emperor of China and a plan to bring the Mongol hordes of the Great Khan west to destroy the culture of Christendom. And at the heart of the web of politics and deceit, Venn falls in love with a woman whose sad story he has deciphered from the secret women's language which really existed inChina for hundreds of years. As magically evocative as an ancient silk painting, this is a novel of the medieval world which illuminates our own.
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An old Englishman sits by a harbour inSpain, hoping each day to hear what might have happened to the son he last saw as a child, many years before. He cannot die in peace until he knows. Dominic was sent to the royal court of Sicily, as page to the great scholarAntioch, and travelled with him on an expedition to the East, from which they never returned. Gradually, through meetings with travellers, the old man puts together most of the story and now the narrative of the expedition alternates with his own. The mission to the East is shrouded in secret motives and mysterious encounters. The boy is befriended by the party's interpreter, Venn, and embroiled in an exotic, dangerous adventure involving lost Cathar treasure, capture by the unimaginably cruel Emperor of China and a plan to bring the Mongol hordes of the Great Khan west to destroy the culture of Christendom. And at the heart of the web of politics and deceit, Venn falls in love with a woman whose sad story he has deciphered from the secret women's language which really existed inChina for hundreds of years. As magically evocative as an ancient silk painting, this is a novel of the medieval world which illuminates our own.
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Utgivelsesår 2009
Format Heftet
ISBN13 9780340920114
EAN 9780340920114
Språk Engelsk
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To lose a small boy in a world so wide is an easy thing. I have learned that now, just as I have learned the names of places unimagined by me then, names that strike my ear like strange verses. Socotra, Kinzai, Samarkand. Malabar, Nicobar, Pem.
I had not thought this Earth of ours so large, nor Christendom so small. I had thought the lands beyond our maps, no wider than the beading edge that runs around Christ's table. Had I known the truth, that the wild plains and forests of the heathen reach so far and so unforgivingly, I should not have let him go. I should not have let him go.
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