Dragon Keeper. Робин Хобб

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      First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2009

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      Source ISBN: 9780007342594

      Ebook Edition © SEPTEMBER 2014 ISBN: 9780007290253

      Version: 2015-12-01

      CONTENTS

       Cover

       Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Prologue: Serpents’ End

Chapter One: The Riverman

Chapter Two: The Hatch

Chapter Three: An Advantageous Offer

Chapter Four: Vows

Chapter Five: Blackmail and Lies

       Chapter Six: Thymara’s Decision

       Chapter Seven: Promises and Threats

       Chapter Eight: Interviews

       Chapter Nine: Journey

       Chapter Ten: Cassarick

       Chapter Eleven: Encounters

       Chapter Twelve: Among Dragons

       Chapter Thirteen: Suspicions

       Chapter Fourteen: Scales

       Chapter Fifteen: Currents

       Chapter Sixteen: Community

       Chapter Seventeen: Decisions

       Keep Reading

       About the Author

       Also by the Author

       About the Publisher

DEDICATION

       To the memory of Spot and Smokey,

       Brownie-butt and Rainbow, Rag-Bag and Sinbad.

       Fine pigeons, one and all.

       Day the 2nd of the Plough Moon

       Year the 6th of the Reign of the Most Noble and Magnificent Satrap Cosgo

       From Erek, Keeper of the Birds, Bingtown to Detozi, Keeper of the Birds, Trehaug

       This night have dispatched to you four birds, bearing in two parts our agreement with the Dragon Tintaglia, to be ratified by the Rain Wild Council. Trader Devouchet, leader of the Bingtown Traders’ Council, suggested that duplicates be sent. They sum up the formal agreement between the Traders and the Dragon. We are to aid her serpents in travelling up the Rain Wild River in exchange for her assistance with defending the Trader cities and waterways against the Chalcedean invaders.

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