{"product_id":"the-mapmakers-son-volume-ii-paperback","title":"The Mapmaker's Son, Volume II (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHe has a new name, a steady hand and a berth on the India fleet. What he is looking for is not on any chart.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCyprus, 1495. The banner of Saint Mark flies over the island, and Antonio Pera, called Falco, has learned to pass for what he says he is: a quiet mapmaker with no past worth asking about. Beside him walks Don Pedro Almirón, the disgraced lawyer who shared his cell in Seville and is still writing it all down.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the cane fields of Venetian Cyprus to the mastic groves of Genoese Chios, from a Genoa at war with itself to the Lisbon quays where his father's debts still wait, Falco takes the commissions that keep his cover alive. None of them stays simple: a ransom racket on the Sultan's doorstep, a chart route the Portuguese crown guards like gold, a fort at Mina where the gold is counted twice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen, in Ragusa, an informant sells him a story: a Genoese girl carried off when Constantinople fell, sold on years later to a buyer in Zanzibar. True or bait, it points where Portugal's new fleet is going. In March 1500 Falco sails with it, by way of a new land in the west, around Africa and up the Swahili coast.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery episode closes with a Chronicler's Note: the real history behind the story, the treaties, decrees, ships and numbers, told plainly. Read the adventure, then find out how much of it actually happened.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVolume II of the historical adventure series. Ten episodes, each a complete story. One falcon.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaperback, 6 x 9 in, 274 pages. ISBN 978-0-557-73016-2.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alessandro Catorcini","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48155901755553,"sku":null,"price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/9285\/0849\/files\/the-mapmakers-son-volume-ii-paperback.jpg?v=1792525492","url":"https:\/\/shop.catorcini.com\/de\/products\/the-mapmakers-son-volume-ii-paperback","provider":"Alessandro Catorcini","version":"1.0","type":"link"}