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    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
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Novgorod the Great

Novgorod the Great

Drummond, Andrew

Paperback

Historical Fiction

ISBN10: 1070763985
ISBN13: 9781070763989
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 3 2019
Pages: 434
Weight: 0.89
Height: 1.08 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Novgorod the Great - City of a Thousand Saints, August 1833. A young widow and a prosperous merchant encounter each other by chance in an inn kept by a man whose antipathy to all guests is matched only by his violent loathing of poets. But during a night spent in each other's company, filled with dawning hope, revelation, unfortunate accidents and pickled eggs, several remarkable stories unfold. The story of John Cochrane, pedestrian traveller extraordinaire, and deceased husband of the young widow Ksenia; of his infamous father, who spent his life defrauding governments and upsetting Napoleon; of Ksenia Loginova's perilous 6,000 mile journey across Siberia and the unwelcome attentions of a troubadour; of the merchant Horatio who reflects on love, slavery and arithmetic. Among other matters discussed at length in the small hours of the night are carnivorous Bolivian elephants, the questionable motives of travellers, and the impatience of Chernobog, Master of the Infernal Darkness...

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