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Title | Empire of Dragons | Height | 198 mm |
Author | Valerio Massimo Manfredi | Width | 129 mm |
ISBN-13 | 9780330438261 | Binding | PAPERBACK |
ISBN-10 | #0330438263 | Spine Width | 25 mm |
Publisher | Pan Macmillan India | Pages | 416 |
Edition | NEW | Availability | In Stock |

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Empire of Dragons
Author: Valerio Massimo Manfredi
Southern Anatolia, 260 AD The town of Edessa, a Roman outpost, is on its last legs, besieged by the Persian troops of Shapur I. Roman Emperor Licinius Valerianus agrees to meet his adversary to draw up a peace treaty, but it is only a trap and the Emperor and his twelve guards are chained and dragged away to work as prisoners in a solitary Persian turquoise mine. After month Southern Anatolia, 260 AD The town of Edessa, a Roman outpost, is on its last legs, besieged by the Persian troops of Shapur I. Roman Emperor Licinius Valerianus agrees to meet his adversary to draw up a peace treaty, but it is only a trap and the Emperor and his twelve guards are chained and dragged away to work as prisoners in a solitary Persian turquoise mine. After months of forced labour the Emperor dies, but his guards make a daring escape lead by the heroic and enigmatic chief, Marcus Metellus Aquila. They meet a mysterious, exiled Chinese Prince, Dan Qing, and agree to safeguard his journey home to reconquest his throne from his mortal enemy, a eunuch named Wei. Thus begins the adventures of the Romans and the Prince as they journey to China. There they will discover that they arent the first of their kind to arrive in China: they were preceded centuries before by the survivors of the lost legion.