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Vintage 1999. Yellowing. Cover Creased. Previous Owners Notation Inside Back

Vintage 1999. Yellowing. Cover Creased. Previous Owners Notation Inside Back Cover. Light Wear. Moisture Spot on Top Edge. Good Condition per Guidelines. Unless Listed in this decription, VG or Better.

Vintage. Used; Very Good. Vintage 1999. Trade Paperback. Book Condition: Very

Vintage. Used; Very Good. Vintage 1999. Trade Paperback. Book Condition: Very Good. Jacket Condition: none. Small remainder mark With the bravura storytelling and pungent authenticity of detail she brought to her acclaimed Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett, grande dame of the historical novel, presents The House of Niccolo series. The time is the 15th century, when intrepid merchants became the new knighthood of Europe. Among them, none is bolder or more cunning than Nicholas vander Poele of Bruges, the good-natured dyer's apprentice who schemes and swashbuckles his way to the helm of a mercantile empire. The year 1464 finds Nicholas back in Venice. Plagued by enemies bent on dissolving his assets and smearing his character, he sets sail for Africa, legendary location of the Fountain of Youth, home to a descendant of Sheba and Solomon, and the source of gold in such abundance that men prefer to barter in shells. He will learn firsthand the brutality and grandeur of the Dark Continent, from the horror of the slave trade to the austere nobility of Islamic Timbuktu. He will discover, too, the charms of the beautiful Gelis van Borselen--a woman whose passion for Nicholas is rivaled only by her desire to punish him for his role in her sister s death. Erotic and lush with detail, Scales of Gold embraces the complexity of the Renaissance, where mercantile adventure couples with more personal quests behind the silken curtains of the Age of Discovery. 1999. TRADE PAPERBACK.