Blood & Kin: An Empire SagaSinclair-Stevenson, 2001 - 822 Seiten From Queen Victoria to the Millennium, this saga tells of the generations of a family which helped to build and then watch the fall of an imperial power which, at one time, controlled a quarter of the planet. (The author himself comes from a family which served the Empire over five generations.) |
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Prelude | 1 |
TO CATCH A FISH | 12 |
THE CLEARING OF THE GLEN | 23 |
Urheberrecht | |
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