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The first book in David Anthony Durham’s acclaimed fantasy series, the Acacia Trilogya??a timeless tale of heroism and betrayal, of treachery and revenge, of primal wrongs and ultimate redemption.Leodan Akaran, ruler of the Known World, has inherited gene

Много веков назад империя Акация правила бесчисленными странами и народами, - но рано или поздно рушатся даже самые могущественные державы...
Вот и Акация пала под натиском повстанцев - некогда покоренных людей народа мейн, призвавших себе на помощь не только диких и жестоких кочевников, но и древнюю, запретную, темную магию...
Последний император убит.
Его детям, лишенным трона и власти, предстоит самим пробивать себе дорогу в жизни...
Но кто из них рано или поздно снова воссядет на трон предков?
Старший сын, ставший героем среди кочевников - или младший, избравший жребий "джентльмена удачи"?
Старшая дочь - жрица в таинственном храме на далеком острове - или младшая, вынужденная разделить ложе с вождем победивших мейнцев?
Судьба их еще темна. Приключения их только начинаются!

Born into generations of prosperity, the four royal children of the Akaran dynasty know little of the world outside their opulent island paradise. But when an assassin strikes at the heart of their power, their lives are changed forever. Forced to flee to distant corners and separated against their will, the children must navigate a web of hidden allegiances, ancient magic, foreign invaders, and illicit trade that will challenge their very notion of who they are. As they come to understand their true purpose in life, the fate of the world lies in their hands.

Это была эпоха, когда в кровопролитной схватке вновь сошлись Запад и Восток — на сей раз республиканский Рим, уже мечтавший об империи, и могучий Карфаген, притязавший на господство в ойкумене. Это была эпоха, когда вершили историю, сражались,

In ancient Rome, parents used to silence misbehaving children with the utterance 'Hannibal ad portas' (Hannibal is at the door). Such was the fear and awe that Hannibal Barca instilled...
Told in arcing, epic technicolour, this is the story of one of the ancient world's most remarkable figures and the long, bloody conflict between the two 'superpowers' of the times - the Second Punic War (218-202BC) - that hinged on the genius, the ambition and the personal tragedies of Hannibal Barca of Carthage, whose military prowess became the stuff of legend, and Publius Scipio of Rome. History, of course, tells us the outcome: that Rome would be the victor, surviving to become a colossal imperial power, while Carthage would be all but erased from history. It was, however, a close run thing. And the world might have been a very different place had Hannibal succeeded in thwarting the might of Rome.
Pride of Carthage is a sweeping, thrilling story of ancient warfare, of armies traversing frozen snow-covered mountains, of battles won or lost by brilliant generals fighting in ingenious, cunning ways. And it's a story teeming with superbly drawn, memorable characters and players, historical and imagined - from Numidian horsemen and the Roman legions to the slaves and freemen from all corners of the ancient Mediterranean world...

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When Gabriel Lynch moves with his mother and brother from a brownstone in Baltimore to a dirt-floor hovel on a homestead in Kansas, he is not pleased. He does not dislike his new stepfather, a former slave, but he has no desire to submit to a life of drudgery and toil on the untamed prairie. So he joins up with a motley crew headed for Texas only to be sucked into an ever-westward wandering replete with a mindless violence he can neither abet nor avoid–a terrifying trek he penitently fears may never allow for a safe return. David Anthony Durham is a genuine talent bent on devastating originality and Gabriel’s Story is as formidable a debut as we have witnessed.