num_pages: 64
description: 1450s France. A young Englishman Tom Swan is kneeling in the dirt waiting to be killed by the French who've taken him captive.He's not a professional soldier. He's really a merchant and a scholar looking for remnants of Ancient Greece and Rome - temples graves pottery fabulous animals unicorn horns. But he also has a real talent for ending up in the midst of violence when he didn't mean to. Having used his wits to escape execution he begins a series of adventures that take him to street duels in Italy meetings with remarkable men - from Leonardo Da Vinci to Vlad Dracula - and from the intrigues of the War of the Roses to the fall of Constantinople.
language: English
title: Castillon
publisher: Orion