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基本信息·出版社：Pan Books
·页码：401 页
·出版日期：2006年10月
·ISBN：0330442775
·条形码：9780330442770
·版本：2006-10-01
·装帧：平装
·开本：32开 Pages Per Sheet
内容简介 Book DescriptionAnatolia, AD 260. The city of Edessa, a Roman outpost, is on its last legs after the Persian siege by the troops of Shapur I. Roman Emperor Publius Licinius Valerianus agrees to meet his adversary to negotiate peace. But no negotiations are initiated, no peace sanctioned. The meeting is a trap and
Valerian ends up in enemy hands, along with the commander of his personal guard, Marcus Metellus Aquila, and ten of his most valiant and trusted men. Their destiny is sealed: they will rot away in a mine, forced into slavery in a hell from which no man has ever escaped.
But Metellus - legate of the Second Augusta Legion, hero of the empire - and his men break free and find shelter at an oasis where they meet a mysterious, exiled prince. The Romans become his private militia, agreeing to safeguard the prince's journey back to his homeland, Sera Maior, the mythical Kingdom of silk - China. And so they begin an extraordinary and epic journey through the forests of India, the Himalayan mountains, the deserts of central Asia, all the way to the heart of China.
In that faraway land, the Romans will have to face inhuman trials and battles of awesome violence. Together they will also come to know an outstanding civilization, a marvellous culture, men both intelligent and tolerant, women who are beautiful and passionate. But everything is at stake: love, life and the very survival of the world's greatest two empires...
In
Empire of Dragons, Valerio Massimo Manfredi, bestselling author of the "Alexander" trilogy and
The Last Legon, shapes history into the very essence of adventure to create a novel that is simply enthralling.
Book Dimension length: (cm)17.6 width:(cm)11.1
作者简介 Valerio Massimo Manfredi is the professor of classical archaeology at the Luigi Bocconi University in Milan. He has carried out a number of expeditions and excavations in many sites throughout the Mediterranean, and has taught in Italian and international universities. He has published numerous articles and academic books, mainly on military and trade routes and exlporation in the ancient world.
He has published nine works of fiction, including the "Alexander" trilogy, which has been translated into twenty-four languages in thirty-eight countries, and
The Last Legion, soon to be a major motion picture.
He has written and hosted documentaris on the ancient world transmitted by the main television networks, and has written fiction for cinema and television as well.
He lives with his family in the countryside near Bologna, Italy.
