Tongues of Serpents: A Novel of Temeraire

Tongues of Serpents: A Novel of Temeraire

A dazzling blend of military history, high-flying fantasy, and edge-of-your-seat adventure, Naomi Novikâ€™s Temeraire novels, set in an alternate Napoleonic era in which intelligent dragons have been harnessed as weapons of war, are more than just perennial bestsellersâ€”they are a worldwide phenomenon. Now, in Tongues of Serpents, Naomi Novik is back, along with the dragon Temeraire and his rider and friend, Capt. Will Laurence.

Convicted of treason despite their heroic defense against Napoleonâ€™s invasion of England, Temeraire and Laurenceâ€”stripped of rank and standingâ€”have been transported to the prison colony at New South Wales in distant Australia, where, it is hoped, they cannot further corrupt the British Aerial Corps with their dangerous notions of liberty for dragons. Temeraire and Laurence carry with them three dragon eggs intended to help establish a covert in the colony and destined to be handed over to such second-rate, undesirable officers as have been willing to accept so remote an assignmentâ€”including one former acquaintance, Captain Rankin, whose cruelty once cost a dragon its life.

Nor is this the greatest difficulty that confronts the exiled dragon and rider: Instead of leaving behind all the political entanglements and corruptions of the war, Laurence and Temeraire have instead sailed into a hornetâ€™s nest of fresh complications. For the colony at New South Wales has been thrown into turmoil after the overthrow of the military governor, one William Blighâ€”better known as Captain Bligh, late of HMS Bounty. Bligh wastes no time in attempting to enlist Temeraire and Laurence to restore him to office, while the upstart masters of the colony are equally determined that the new arrivals should not upset a balance of power precariously tipped in their favor.
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Eager to escape this political quagmire, Laurence and Temeraire take on a mission to find a way through the forbidding Blue Mountains and into the interior of Australia. But when one of the dragon eggs is stolen from Temeraire, the surveying expedition becomes a desperate race to recover it in timeâ€”a race that leads to a shocking discovery and a dangerous new obstacle in the global war between Britain and Napoleon.
Country USA
Brand Del Rey
Manufacturer Del Rey
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 10-16347
ReleaseDate 2010-07-13
UnitCount 1
Format Deckle Edge
EANs 9780345496898

Country	USA
Brand	Del Rey
Manufacturer	Del Rey
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	10-16347
ReleaseDate	2010-07-13
UnitCount	1
Format	Deckle Edge
EANs	9780345496898

Tongues of Serpents: A Novel of Temeraire

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