In 1718, John Chandagnac, a bookkeeper and puppeteer, unwittingly sails into the company of Blackbeard the pirate, encounters zombie-crewed wrecks, and is caught up in a search for the Fountain of Youth.
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A dark, delicious flow of strangeness... On Stranger Tides reminds me why I came to love reading in the first place * Orson Scott Card * Tim Powers is a brilliant writer * William Gibson * Tim Powers has long been one of my absolutely favourite writers * Peter Straub * The reigning king of adult historical fantasy * Kirkus * The best fantasy writer to appear in decades * The Guardian * If you've ever woken half way through a fabulous dream and desperately wanted to know what would have happened next: relax. Those unfinished stories go to Tim Powers, and he's good enough to write them down for all of us * Nick Harkaway *
A swashbuckling, rip-roaring adventure: Pirates! Zombies! Blackbeard! Voodoo! Treasure! AND the book that inspired Pirates of the Caribbean IV: On Stranger Tides.
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Seller: Rosemarie Spannbauer, Neureichenau, Germany
Hardcover. Condition: Wie neu. Dust Jacket Condition: Wie neu. Buch ist ungelesen und makellos. Kein Versand in die USA. Seller Inventory # ABE-1730722932892
Seller: Antiquariat Hamecher, Naumburg, Germany
23 cm. 326 S. Ill. Oln. - OS. Exlibris im Einband. Sehr guter Zustand. Deluxe limited edition, signed by Powers and the illustrator James Gurney. Sprache: deutsch. Seller Inventory # 116514AB
Seller: Bay State Book Company, North Smithfield, RI, U.S.A.
Condition: very_good. Seller Inventory # BSM.1DLBU
Seller: World of Books (was SecondSale), Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
Hardback. Condition: Good. Aboard the Vociferous Carmichael puppeteer John Chandagnac is sailing toward Jamaica to claim his stolen birthright from an unscrupulous uncle when the vessel is captured.by pirates! Offered a choice by Captain Phil Davies to join their seafaring band or die, Chandagnac assumes the name John Shandy and a new life as a brigand. But more than swashbuckling sea battles and fabulous plunder await the novice buccaneer on the roiling Caribbean waters--for treachery and powerful vodun sorcery are coins of the realm in this dark new world. And for the love of beautiful, magically imperiled Beth Hurwood, Shandy will set sail on even stranger tides, following the savage, ghost-infested pirate king Blackbeard and a motley crew of the living and the dead to the cursed nightmare banks of the fabled Fountain of Youth.The novel that inspired the motion picture Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides--Denver Post. Seller Inventory # CIN1596061677G
Seller: World of Books Inc, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
Hardback. Condition: Good. Aboard the Vociferous Carmichael puppeteer John Chandagnac is sailing toward Jamaica to claim his stolen birthright from an unscrupulous uncle when the vessel is captured.by pirates! Offered a choice by Captain Phil Davies to join their seafaring band or die, Chandagnac assumes the name John Shandy and a new life as a brigand. But more than swashbuckling sea battles and fabulous plunder await the novice buccaneer on the roiling Caribbean waters--for treachery and powerful vodun sorcery are coins of the realm in this dark new world. And for the love of beautiful, magically imperiled Beth Hurwood, Shandy will set sail on even stranger tides, following the savage, ghost-infested pirate king Blackbeard and a motley crew of the living and the dead to the cursed nightmare banks of the fabled Fountain of Youth.The novel that inspired the motion picture Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides--Denver Post. Seller Inventory # CIN1596061677G