The Gryphon's Skull (Tom Doherty Associates Book) Book

The vast tapestry of the Hellenic world unfolds in this stirring tale of two traders from the island of Rhodes who range across the wind-blown face of the Mediterranean in search of adventureand profits.In Over the Wine-Dark Sea, H.N. Turteltaub transported his readers to the year 310 B.C. and the adventurous lives of Menedemos and Sostratos, two sea traders of Rhodes. Now their world comes alive again in The Gryphons Skull, an epic of grand adventure and finely realized characters. Sostratos, long and rangy, intellectually curious, chases knowledge as ardently as his cousin chases women. Menedemos, nearly as perfect a physical specimen as Alexander himself, is the headstrong man of the sea, his eyes unable to resist the veiled beauties around him . . . including his very young stepmother, Baukis, whose voice and form he struggles to ignore.Having profitably returned the Aphrodite to Rhodes, the cousins find that war threatens their once free-trading world. Yet they still need to turn a profitand Sostratos has come into possession of what hes convinced is the skull of of a gryphon.So they set sail for to Athens, intending to sell the skull, along with the Egyptian emeralds theyve obtained on the cheap. But between the Aphrodite and Athens lie two huge warring fleets, vicious pirates and enough danger and intrigue to satisfy even Homer. Unfortunately, it may be more than Sostratos and Menedemos can hope to survive.Read More