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The Pope's Assassin is the third book in Tim Severin's thrilling historical adventure series set in Saxon times.

Sigwulf, a Saxon prince who has found himself at the court of King Carolus in France, is summoned by the royal advisor. A rare white elephant has been sent as a gift from the Caliph of Baghdad - and Carolus is determined to send an embassy to the Caliph bearing presents of equal prize to encourage good political relations. Sigwulf and his companions Osric and Walo are sent on a deadly mission to search the wild northlands of Europe for the rarest of creatures for the Caliph, including a giant, lethal wild ox, elusive hunting falcons and polar bears. Every animal they capture must be white, the royal colour of Baghdad. But it seems that someone is trying to prevent the embassy from succeeding. As they set out with their menagerie of creatures across the hot, dusty roads to the Middle East, Sigwulf finds them ambushed at every corner

999, het laatste jaar van het eerste millennium, is het jaar van de geboorte van Thorgils Leifsson, zoon van Leif de Gelukkige en Thorgunna, een mysterieuze Ierse edelvrouw die gezegend is met helderziendheid. Thorgils, die op jonge leeftijd is gescheiden van zijn ouders, wordt in IJsland en Groenland grootgebracht door verschillende mentoren die hem de oude gebruiken en gewoontes bijbrengen, en hem waarschuwen voor de invasie van de 'Witte Christus' in het land van de 'Oude Goden'. Als hij nog een kind is, komt hij in Vinland terecht, de meest afgelegen buitenpost in het Westen, waar hij getuige is van een brute afslachting, die wordt geleid door zijn boosaardige tante, en waarbij een complete Viking-nederzetting uitgeroeid wordt. In IJsland raakt hij in een bloederige vete tussen rivaliserende families verwikkeld en in Ierland wordt hij tot krijgsgevangene gemaakt en verkocht aps slaaf. Thorgils, die een zwervend bestaan leidt, heeft dankzij zijn kwikzilverachtige sluwheid het vermogen om zich aan elke denkbare situatie aan te passen. Hij is een aanbidder van de god Odin, en de turbulente gebeurtenissen in zijn leven brengen hem op het slagveld, waar hij ternauwernood aan de dood ontsnapt, levensbedreigend ziek wordt en schipbreuk lijdt....

Betrayal and treachery, The Book of Dreams is the first in Tim Severin's thrilling historical adventure series set in Saxon times.

Rapito dai corsari e venduto come schiavo al mercato di Algeri, il diciassettenne Hector Lynch è riuscito con astuzia, coraggio e determinazione a sovvertire il proprio destino e a riconquistare la libertà. Ma la prospettiva d'iniziare una nuova vita nel Nuovo Mondo s'infrange ben presto tra le onde del Mar dei Caraibi, dove la sua nave viene intercettata da John Coxon, un bucaniere noto per la sua estrema crudeltà e spregiudicatezza. In un primo momento, però, la fortuna sembra assistere Hector: il giovane infatti convince Coxon di essere nientemeno che il nipote di Sir Thomas Lynch, il potente governatore della Giamaica. Tuttavia non può certo immaginare che il pirata ha intenzione di consegnarlo "in dono" a Sir Henry Morgan, il nemico giurato del governatore; perciò, quando l'inganno viene svelato, fuggire è il solo modo per sottrarsi all'ira del bucaniere. E quella fuga fa precipitare Hector in un vortice d'intrighi politici e di pericoli mortali: prima in mare aperto, tra uragani devastanti e paurosi naufragi, e poi nelle viscere della terra, dove gli spagnoli hanno scoperto immense miniere d'oro. E in un mondo in cui la menzogna e il tradimento sono le uniche monete di scambio, anche l'amore per una bellissima e nobile ragazza può rivelarsi una debolezza letale...

Ambushed by a gang of hardened sea robbers headed for the South Sea, Hector Lynch, pirate and fugitive, is obliged to navigate their vessel on a nightmarish journey through the stormy seas off Cape Horn and when his ruthless shipmates abandon him in Peru, he learns that Maria, the young Spanish woman who stole his heart and whose false testimony saved him from the gallows, is now living on the remote Ladrones, the Thief Islands, on the far side of the Pacific Ocean. His epic voyage to reach her will bring him face to face with a Japanese warlord who submits trespassers to his island to a deadly duel and with a naked Stone Age tribe who file their teeth to sharp points and sail boats that outpace the fastest galleon. In "Pirate: Sea Robbers" Tim Severin takes the reader on an enthralling adventure through the seventeenth-century world of the seafarers who risked scurvy, shipwreck and drowning in hopes of reaping fortunes in spice and treasure.

1677, on a late summer’s evening two ships lurk off the coast of southwest Ireland. They are Barbary corsairs from North Africa, slave catchers. As soon as it is dark, their landing parties row ashore to raid a small fishing village - on the hunt for fresh prey . . .In the village, seventeen-year-old Hector Lynch wakes to the sound of a pistol shot. Moments later he and his sister Elizabeth are taken prisoner. From then on Hector’s life plunges into a turbulent and lawless world that is full of surprises. Separated from Elizabeth, he is sold to the slave market of Algiers, where he survives with the help of his newfound friend Dan, a Miskito Indian from the Caribbean.The two men convert to Islam to escape the horrors of the slave pens, only to become victims of the deadly warfare of the Mediterranean. Serving aboard a Turkish corsair ship, their vessel is sunk at sea and they find themselves condemned to the oar as galley slaves for France. Driven by his quest to find his sister, Hector finally stumbles on the chilling truth of her fate when he and Dan are shipwrecked on the coast of Morocco . .