The Pindar Diamond

Author : Katie Hickman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 160819213X
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pindar Diamond written by Katie Hickman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-08-24 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While a disabled woman and her infant are sold to traveling performers by superstitious 17th-century Italian townspeople, a grieving gambler makes plans for a priceless blue diamond in the hopes of recouping his fortunes. By the author of The Aviary Gate. Original.

Author : Katie Hickman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780747599951
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pindar Diamond written by Katie Hickman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Venice, 1604. When rumours of a spectacularly rare and priceless diamond begin to circulate amongst the gamblers and courtesans of the Venetian demi-monde, the Levant Company merchant, Paul Pindar, becomes convinced that the jewel is somehow linked to the fate of his former love, Celia Lamprey. As his obsession with the mysterious stone grows it becomes clear that there are other, more sinister forces at play. Is the diamond real, or is it just a trick to lure him to his ruin? The Pindar Diamond moves from the canals of Venice to the coasts of Dalmatia, from a famed physic garden in the Venetian lagoon to the secret corridors of a convent - a tale of lust, love, greed, wealth and danger set among the Levant traders in the early years of the seventeenth century. Written in the exquisitely evocative style that is Katie Hickman's trademark, this is a gripping and superbly told story that goes as deeply into history as into the human heart.

Author : Susan Ronald
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 047035710X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sancy Blood Diamond written by Susan Ronald and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-05-02 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating six-hundred-year history of one of the world's most coveted gems and the royal feuds, intrigues, and betrayals it engendered The Sancy Diamond first came to Europe from India in the fourteenth century, and until 1661 it was the largest white diamond-and the most concentrated and secure form of wealth-in all of Christendom. Alternately believed to impart invincibility to its wearer and to bring ruin to any who owned it, the Sancy cast a seemingly mystical spell over everyone from the king of Portugal to Henry III of France to England's Elizabeth I to Napoleon Bonaparte and Queen Maria Luisa of Spain. The riveting account of one of the most hotly pursued gems in history, The Sancy Blood Diamond follows its six-century journey from the diamond mines of Golconda to where it now modestly resides at the Louvre, among the remnants of the French crown jewels. In a colorful, fast-paced narrative, historian Susan Ronald describes the often violent passions the Sancy engendered among many of the giants of European history. She also describes the pivotal roles it played on the chessboard of European geopolitics, and how it was used to raise armies, settle national debts, and enhance its owners' power and prestige. Working from primary sources, Ronald solves, once and for all, the mystery of the Sancy's disappearances in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and she explores the legend of the Sancy curse, which arose after the violent deaths of Burgundy's Charles the Bold, England's Charles I, France's Louis XVI, and other ill-fated owners.

Author : David Brown
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 152613201X
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empire and enterprise written by David Brown and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-09 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the transformation of England’s trade and government finances in the mid-seventeenth century, a revolution that destroyed Ireland. In 1642 a small group of merchants, the ‘Adventurers for Irish land’, raised an army to conquer Ireland but sent it instead to fight for parliament in England. Meeting secretly at Grocers Hall in London from 1642 to 1660, they laid the foundations of England’s empire and modern fiscal state. But a dispute over their Irish land entitlements led them to reject Cromwell’s Protectorate and plot to restore the monarchy. This is the first book to chart the relentless rise of the Adventurers and their profound political influence. It is essential reading for students of Britain and Ireland in the mid-seventeenth century, the origins of England’s empire and the Cromwellian land settlement.

Author : Katie Hickman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608196917
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Aviary Gate written by Katie Hickman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constantinople, 1599. Paul Pindar, a secretary to the English ambassador, thinks he has lost his love, Celia, in a shipwreck. Now, two years later, clues begin to emerge that she may be hidden among the ranks of the slaves in the Sultan's harem. But how can he be sure? And can they be reunited? With a secret rebellion rising within the Sultan's palace, danger surrounds the lovers. A lush, ancient tale of treacherous secrets, forbidden love, and murder in the Ottoman palace,The Aviary Gate is exotic historical fiction at its very best.

Author : Peter Pindar
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 26 pages
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Total Pages : 476 pages
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Author : Leslie Stephen
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1368 pages
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Download or read book Dictionary of National Biography written by Leslie Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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