The Bookman by Lavie Tidhar

Author:Lavie Tidhar
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: 01 Fantasy
Publisher: Angry Robot
Published: 2010-09-27T23:00:00+00:00

...An amazing land! I have never thought to see such wild beauties as the forests of this new land, its strange animals and unknown flora. My notebook is filling up fast with lines of poetry, which I will attempt to structure into an epic narrative poem upon our return. I lie in a hammock on the deck and dream of glory, success following publication, a long life with many women, children and grand-children, at last, rich and old and famous, burial in Westminster Abbey… I smile even as I write this. But it is good to daydream. Our journey is nearly at an end, and has been successful beyond all expectations. We will be welcomed like heroes. I wonder – have we opened up this new world for good? Will the navy sail here now, to take control of this wild continent and its wilder islands, to establish trade missions and new colonies for the glory of Britannia? No doubt. Yet the people of these lands have civilisations of their own, some quite powerful and old. I do not take the Aztecs lightly, nor the others, the [unreadable] who are fierce warriors. Tomorrow we shall stop at Xaymaco, then home.

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