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HarperVoyager
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First published in Great Britain by HarperVoyager 2017
Copyright © Robin Hobb 2017
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Source ISBN: 9780007444250
Ebook Edition © May 2017 ISBN: 9780007444267
Version: 2018-09-24
To Fitz and the Fool.
My best friends for over twenty years.
Contents
Copyright
Dedication
Map
Prologue
Chapter One: Bee Stings
Chapter Two: The Silver Touch
Chapter Three: In the Mountains
Chapter Four: Chalced
Chapter Five: The Bargain
Chapter Six: Revelations
Chapter Seven: Beggar
Chapter Eight: Tintaglia
Chapter Nine: The Tarman
Chapter Ten: Bee’s Book
Chapter Eleven: Passage
Chapter Twelve: The Liveship Paragon
Chapter Thirteen: Full Sails
Chapter Fourteen: Paragon’s Bargain
Chapter Fifteen: Trader Akriel
Chapter Sixteen: The Pirate Isles
Chapter Seventeen: Serpent Spit
Chapter Eighteen: Silver Ships and Dragons
Chapter Nineteen: Another Ship, Another Journey
Chapter Twenty: Belief
Chapter Twenty-One: Under Sail
Chapter Twenty-Two: The Butterfly Cloak
Chapter Twenty-Three: Clerres
Chapter Twenty-Four: Hand and Foot
Chapter Twenty-Five: Bribes
Chapter Twenty-Six: Silver Secrets
Chapter Twenty-Seven: Feather to Blade
Chapter Twenty-Eight: Unsafe Harbour
Chapter Twenty-Nine: Accusations
Chapter Thirty: Barriers and a Black Banner
Chapter Thirty-One: The Butterfly Man
Chapter Thirty-Two: A Way In
Chapter Thirty-Three: Candles
Chapter Thirty-Four: Smoke
Chapter Thirty-Five: Confrontations
Chapter Thirty-Six: Surprises
Chapter Thirty-Seven: Touch
Chapter Thirty-Eight: Ship of Dragons
Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Vengeance
Chapter Forty: Warm Water
Chapter Forty-One: Vivacia’s Voyage
Chapter Forty-Two: Furnich
Chapter Forty-Three: Bingtown
Chapter Forty-Four: Up the River
