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      Ship of Magic

      by Robin Hobb
      Published
      Mar 1998
      Main Genre
      Fantasy Fantasy
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      832
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      Liveship Traders Book 1

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      Bingtown is a hub of exotic trade and home to a merchant nobility famed for its liveships--rare vessels carved from wizardwood, which ripens magically into sentient awareness. The fortunes of one of Bingtown's oldest families rest on the newly awakened liveship Vivacia. For Althea Vestrit, the ship is her rightful legacy unjustly denied her-- a legacy she will risk anything to reclaim. For Althea's young nephew Wintrow, wrenched from his religious studies and forced to serve aboard ship, the Vivacia is a life sentence. But the fate of the Vestrit family--and the ship--may ultimately lie in the hands of an outsider. The ruthless pirate Kennit seeks a way to seize power over all the denizens of the Pirate Isles...and the first step of his plan requires him to capture a liveship of his own and bend it to his will....

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      Genres & Themes

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      General Fiction Speculative Fiction

      Subgenres

      Fantasy Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery

      Themes

      Arthurian Legend

      Characters & Occupations

      Dragons

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