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Agnes Danforth Hewes, Lynd Ward

Spice and the Devil's Cave, Ferdinand Magellan, Vasco da Gama, and other fifteenth-century adventurers spring to life in this thrilling tale of the competition between Portugal and the Venetian Republic to discover an all-sea trade route leading to the spices of India. In the Lisbon workshop of banker and navigation enthusiast Abel Zakuto, a group of intrepid explorers gather to discuss the possibility of finding a way around the stormy tip of Africa — the Devil's Cave.

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Agnes Danforth Hewes

When young Red Magill sets sail from Portugal in the early 16th century, he carries more than just dreams of adventure—he bears the weight of a dangerous mission that could reshape the spice trade forever. The treacherous waters around the Cape of Good Hope, known ominously as the Devil's Cave, have claimed countless ships and brave souls. But Red must navigate these deadly seas to reach the fabled Spice Islands, where fortunes are made and empires are built on precious cargoes of pepper, ...

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Agnes Danforth Hewes

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Classic Novels

Spice and the Devil's Cave is a book by Agnes Hewes that was published in 1930. This piece of historical fiction is a retroactive winner of the Newbery Honor award. The setting is Lisbon, Portugal in the late 1490s, as Vasco de Gama, Bartholomew Diaz, and Ferdinand Magellan discuss their plans to find the elusive sea route around the Cape of Good Hope, which would enable Portugal to access the spice-rich countries of the Far East.Agnes Danforth Hewes (March 30, 1874 – September 30,...

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Agnes Danforth Hewes

"Lively and colorful overall, and allows readers to enter into a fascinating, highly volatile era." — The Emerald City Book ReviewFerdinand Magellan, Vasco da Gama, and other fifteenth-century adventurers spring to life in this thrilling tale of the competition between Portugal and the Venetian Republic to discover an all-sea trade route leading to the spices of India. In the Lisbon workshop of banker and navigation enthusiast Abel Zakuto, a group of intrepid explorers gather to dis...

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Thomas Osborne

The view 16-year-old Thomas Osborne first had of Muskoka was at night, trudging alone with his even younger brother along unmarked primitive roads to find their luckless father who, in 1875, had decided to make a new start for his beleaguered family on some "free land" in the bush east of the pioneer village of Huntsville, Ontario. The miracle is that Thomas lived to tell the tale.For the next five years Thomas endured starvation, falling through the ice and freezing, accidents wit...

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Tatiana de Rosnay

**Now a major motion picture!From beloved international sensation and #1 New York Times bestselling author Tatiana de Rosnay come's her celebrated novel Sarah's Key.**Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours.Paris, May 2002: ...

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Madeleine L'Engle

From the Newbery Medal–winning author of A Wrinkle in Time , a woman finds inspiration in a seventeenth-century nun's life after the loss of her child.After the tragic death of her son and the seeming collapse of her marriage, Charlotte Napier flees to Portugal in the hopes of finding guidance from her mentor: her mother-in-law, Violet. Instead, she finds solace in the letters of Mariana Alcoforado, a seventeenth-century ...

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Karen Chance

The thrilling prequel to the New York Times bestselling Cassie Palmer series, featuring seductive and dangerous Master Vampire Mircea Basarab.Fifteenth century Venice is a safe haven for the masterless dregs of the vampire world, a city where they can live without the fear of retribution for violating another’s territory.Still, there are plenty of ways for a young vampire to die in the glittering city, a lesson that prince turned pauper Mircea Basarab must ...

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Christian Cameron

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Tom Swan and the Head of St George

Venice: part two of a fast-paced serialised novel set in the turbulent Europe of the fifteenth century.A young Englishman, Tom Swan, travels to Italy in the bodyguard of a Cardinal. He finds it a different world. Food is delicious, women are beautiful, men are quick to make friends and quick to draw knives. Swan likes it, and dives into the politics and the plotting, the art and the fashion - and the bordellos - of Renaissance Italy.He's not a professional ...

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Nicholas Monsarrat

A classic novel set during the siege of Malta 1940-1942 from the bestselling author of The Cruel Sea'One of the most memorable characters of post-war fiction' Daily Express'I finished it full of admiration for a superior craftsman' Sunday Times'Monsarrat at his best' New York TimesFather Salvatore was a simple, lumbering priest, a Kappillan serving the poo...

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Christian Cameron

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Tom Swan and the Head of St George

Chios: part six of a fast-paced serialised novel set in the turbulent Europe of the fifteenth century.A young Englishman, Tom Swan, finds himself in the midst of the Turkish siege of one of the richest islands in the Genoese Empire. Swan's biggest problem is that he hates the Genoese a good deal more than he hates the Turks. Despite which, he has to catch the spy, steal the ring, kill the traitor and, if possible, rescue the princess. Or maybe just bed her....

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Christian Cameron

In a city of masks, no one is what they seem . . .Englishman Richard Hughes has survived a stint as a galley slave and is now a free man in Venice, where he enjoys a modest life as a fencing master.He believes he has long-since left behind the ideals that landed him in slavery...until he stumbles across an attempted murder close to home. As he hunts for the red-masked assassin who is picking off the city's Libertini, Richard and his new rescued fri...