TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stockwin, Julian,
TI  - The powder of death
SN  - 9780749019303 (hardback)
U1  - 823.92 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - London
PB  - Allison & Busby
KW  - Knights and knighthood
KW  - fast
KW  - Gunpowder Plot, 1605
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Venice (Italy)
KW  - History
KW  - 13th century
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Italy
KW  - Venice
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - gsafd
KW  - Adventure fiction
N2  - 1261. Oxford, England. An envoy returns from the land of the Tartars to meet with an English scholar and share a deadly secret that touches on the future of Christianity itself. 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, local blacksmith Jared begins a pilgrimage to the Promised Land. Aboard a ship to Venice, he meets Sir Nicholas Gayne who invites him 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 . .
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