Title: The spring of the ram
Description: In fifteenth-century Europe, young Niccolo travels from Florence to Trevizond on the Black Sea, where the West and the Orient meet and where he finds both opportunity and danger.
Subjects: Fiction, History, Merchants, Nicholas Vander Poele (Fictitious character), Adventure stories, Fifteenth century, Historical fiction, Vander poele, nicholas (fictitious character), fiction, Belgium, fiction, Fiction, historical, Fiction, action & adventure, Fiction, historical, general
Places: Europe, Turkey, Trabzon (Turkey), Flanders (Belgium), Belgium
Time periods: 15th century, Mehmed II, 1451-1481, To 1555