Commissioned to rescue Governor Bligh of Bounty fame, Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend, surgeon Stephen Maturin, sail the Leopard to Australia with a hold full of convicts....
Jean Le Viste, a 15th-century nobleman close to the King, hires an ambitious artist to design six tapestries celebrating his rising status at Court....
Four thousand years ago, a stranger's death and his ominous gift of gold precipitates the building of what will become known as one of mankind's most remarkable achievements....
