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Title: THE POWDER OF DEATH
By: Julian Stockwin
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0749020849
ISBN 13: 9780749020842
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Publisher: ALLISON & BUSBY
Pub. date: 20 April, 2017
Series: The Moments of History series 2
Pages: 384
Description: The Powder of Death tells the story of how gunpowder found its way to the west.
Synopsis: 1261. Oxford, England. An envoy returns from the land of the Tartars to meet with an English scholar and share a deadly secret. The two men vow that the knowledge of gunpowder must die with them as the consequences are otherwise too fatal to contemplate. 1290. Hurnwych Green, England. After his quiet life is shattered by tragedy, blacksmith Jared begins a pilgrimage to the Promised Land. Along the way he is invited to join the Knights Hospitallers as their blacksmith on a holy crusade for King Edward. The adventure that follows sees Jared encounter men from distant Cathay who harbour the secret of huo yao, and so begins one man's obsession with the powder of death and a king's determination to change the very nature of warfare ...
Publication: UK
Imprint: Allison & Busby
Returns: Returnable
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