Victory of Eagles. Naomi Novik
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Название: Victory of Eagles

Автор: Naomi Novik

Издательство: HarperCollins

Жанр: Ужасы и Мистика

Серия: The Temeraire Series

isbn: 9780007318612

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      NAOMI NOVIK

       Victory of Eagles

       logo200 Copyright

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

      HarperVoyager An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd. 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF

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      First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd. 2008

      Copyright © Naomi Novik 2008

      Cover design © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd. 2014

      Cover illustrations © Dominic Harman

      Naomi Novik asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

      A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library

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      Source ISBN: 9780007256761

       Ebook Edition © FEBRUARY 2009 ISBN: 9780007318612

       Version: 2019-02-26

      For Dr. Sonia Novik

      who gave this book a home

      Table of Contents

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       Part I

       Chapter One

       Chapter Two

       Chapter Three

       Chapter Four

       Chapter Five

       Chapter Six

       Part II

       Chapter Seven

       Chapter Eight

       Chapter Nine

       Chapter Ten

       Chapter Eleven

       Chapter Twelve

       Part III

       Chapter Thirteen

       Chapter Fourteen

       Chapter Fifteen

       Chapter Sixteen

       Keep Reading

       About the Author

       By the Same Author

       About the Publisher

PART I

       Chapter One

      The breeding grounds were called Pen Y Fan, after the hard, jagged slash of mountain rising like an axe-blade at their heart, rimed with ice along its edge and rising barren over the moorland. It was a cold, wet Welsh autumn already, coming on towards winter, and the other dragons were sleepy and remote, uninterested in anything but meals. A few hundred of them were scattered throughout the grounds, mostly established in caves or on rocky ledges, СКАЧАТЬ