The Mad Ship
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The Mad Ship is a book by Robin Hobb
, the second in her Liveship Traders Trilogy. It appeared in the USA as simply Mad Ship.
, The Mad Ship sees Althea Vestrit returning home on the Liveship Ophelia to find that the ship Vivacia has disappeared along with her crew.
Robin Hobb
Robin Hobb is the second pen name of novelist Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden who produces primarily fantasy fiction, although she has published some science fiction....
, the second in her Liveship Traders Trilogy. It appeared in the USA as simply Mad Ship.
Plot
Picking up after the adventures in Ship of MagicShip of Magic
Ship of Magic is a 1998 fantasy novel by Robin Hobb, the first in her Liveship Traders Trilogy.-Plot summary:Ship of Magic is the first book of the Liveship Traders series and is reminiscent of C.S. Forester's and Patrick O'Brian's writing style concerning the details and subtleties of ship life...
, The Mad Ship sees Althea Vestrit returning home on the Liveship Ophelia to find that the ship Vivacia has disappeared along with her crew.
Editions
- A British EnglishBritish EnglishBritish English, or English , is the broad term used to distinguish the forms of the English language used in the United Kingdom from forms used elsewhere...
paperback edition was issued in London by Voyager/HarpercollinsHarperCollinsHarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company, itself the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company. The worldwide...
in 1999 with ISBN 0006498868. This edition's cover is illustrated by John Howe.