Come ride a magic carpet of interwoven adventure, raw realism and historical significance. This novel has a multi-layered plot embracing the past and present, sometimes challenging historical assumptions. There have been periods in history upon which the sociological course of the world has turned irrevocably. Such was the time of Jeanne D Arc and the demise of the Kingdom of Chimor: From France to Peru, a definitively pivotal period on opposite sides of the world. Discovered parchments provide flashbacks to the fifteenth century and a parallel adventure evolves: Peru, rife with uncharted archaeological resources and potential wealth; the Shining Path, insidious left-wing malcontents; a Peruvian arm of the Japanese Yakuza. Jeanne D Arc, did she really do what history records? Bluebeard, did he really ride with Jeanne? From hair-raising jungle chases to coming of age on blood-soaked battlefields of France and medieval brothels a plethora of characters emerge. Historical personages come to life - some embellished, some not. Early fifteenth century, pre-natal France was a time of untold suffering: bubonic plagues, the Black Death; a hundred years of war with England and strife within; declining population; anarchy, with miscreant mercenaries riding unfettered; witch-hunts and the power of the church unchecked even by God; a staggering feudal system, more so brutal from the crippling strife. And along came Joan, Jeanne D Arc, Maid of Orleans, La-Pucelle Domremy: reviled by the English and Burgundians; revered by the Armagnacs; heretic and saint. A young maiden said to have had visions that thrust her unwittingly (?) into the maelstrom of fifteenth century French politics: a mostly illiterate girl in a society that offered little more than child-bearing and toil, or prostitution as a means of survival. It would seem unfathomable for a maiden to make such a mercurial rise to fame and glory. How could this happen? Were her visions real? Was she a saint se
| ISBN | 1425129099 |
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| 出版社 | 延边人民出版社 |
| 作者 | Dale A. Carswell |
| 尺寸 | 16开 |