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Over the Wine-Dark Sea
The Hellenic Traders Series (Book 1)
- Author
- Harry Turtledove
- Narrator
- Tim Campbell
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 15 November 2022
- Run Time
- 13 hours 36 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Menedemos, the young dashing sea captain, and his helper, the scholarly Sostratos, are sea-traders from the Greek island of Rhodes. Fearless sailors, they will travel any distance to make a profit or to search for rich treasures.
While they trade in fineries such as wine and silk (and even, to the chagrin of many, peacocks), they live in dangerous times with pirates, thieves, and barbarians. As if avoiding death by the hands of these miscreants isn’t enough (particularly the barbarians from an obscure town called Rome), they are also caught between the political intrigues of Alexander’s former generals.
Critics Review
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“A mountain of solid scholarship entertainingly dished out.”
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“A painless way to learn history is to read a well-researched historical novel such as this latest from [Turtledove].”
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Details
- Author
- Harry Turtledove
- Narrator
- Tim Campbell
- Duration
- 13 hours 36 minutes
- Release Date
- 15 November 2022
- ISBN
- 9798212193863
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Alternative history fiction, Science fiction, Fiction: general and literary
Synopsis
Menedemos, the young dashing sea captain, and his helper, the scholarly Sostratos, are sea-traders from the Greek island of Rhodes. Fearless sailors, they will travel any distance to make a profit or to search for rich treasures.While they trade in fineries such as wine and silk (and even, to the chagrin of many, peacocks), they live in dangerous times with pirates, thieves, and barbarians. As if avoiding death by the hands of these miscreants isn’t enough (particularly the barbarians from an obscure town called Rome), they are also caught between the political intrigues of Alexander’s former generals.
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