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Le Vaisseau magique, tome 1 : Les aventuriers de la mer

De Robin Hobb

Présentation de l'éditeur
Les vivenefs sont des vaisseaux magiques liés à la famille qui les possède par des liens empathiques. Ces navires sont insaisissables, ils bravent les tempêtes, évitent les récifs, distancent les monstres marins, sèment les pirates... Et sont surtout l'objet de toutes les convoitises
Vivacia est la vivenef de la famille Vestrit. Le capitaine Ephron Vestrit est mourant et, parmi les siens, chacun ourdit complots et traîtrises pour s'approprier son vaisseau, car l'héritage d'une vivenef ne se transmet pas comme un legs normal. Et ce tandis que d'autres dangers se profilent à l'horizon : les serpents de mer qui infestent les océans se regroupent, et un ambitieux pirate aspire à unir ses pairs sous un seul pavillon : le sien..

Fourth Uncle in the Mountain: The Remarkable Legacy of a Buddhist Itinerant Doctor in Vietnam

By Marjorie Pivar and Quang Van Nguyen

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Set during the French and American wars in South Vietnam, Fourth Uncle in the Mountain is the true story of an orphan, Quang Van Nguyen, adopted by a sixty-four-year-old monk, Thau, who carries great responsibility for his people as a barefoot doctor. Thau manages against all odds to raise his son to follow in his footsteps and in doing so saves him, as well as a part of Vietnam’s esoteric knowledge from the Vietnam holocaust. Thau is wanted by the French regime and occasionally must flee in to the jungle, where he is perfectly at home living among the animals. As wise and resourceful as Thau is, he meets his match in his mischievous son. Quang is more interested in learning Cambodian sorcery and martial arts than in developing his skills and wisdom according to his father’s plan. Fourth Uncle in the Mountain is an odyssey of a single-father folk hero and his foundling son in a land ravaged by the atrocities of war. It is a classic story complete with humor, tragedy, and insight, from a country where ghosts and magic are real.

Ship of Magic

By Robin Hobb

 

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Bingtown is a hub of exotic trade and home to a merchant nobility famed for its liveships--rare vessels carved from wizardwood, which ripens magically into sentient awareness. The fortunes of one of Bingtown's oldest families rest on the newly awakened liveship Vivacia.

For Althea Vestrit, the ship is her rightful legacy unjustly denied her--a legacy she will risk anything to reclaim. For Althea's young nephew Wintrow, wrenched from his religious studies and forced to serve aboard ship, Vivacia is a life sentence.

But the fate of the Vestrit family--and the ship--may ultimately lie in the hands of an outsider. The ruthless pirate Kennit seeks a way to seize power over all the denizens of the Pirate Isles...and the first step of his plan requires him to capture his own liveship and bend it to his will....

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