<p>The Pope's Rhinoceros is a vivid, antic, and picaresque novel spun around one of history's most bizarre chapters: the sixteenth-century attempt to procure a rhinoceros as a bribe for Pope Leo X. In February 1516, a Portuguese ship sank off the coast of Italy. The Nostra Senora de Ajuda had sailed fourteen thousand miles from the Indian kingdom of Gujarat. Her mission: to bribe the "pleasure-loving Pope" into favoring expansionist Portugal over her rival Spain with the most exotic and least likely of gifts -- a living rhinoceros. Moving from the herring colonies of the Baltic Sea to the West African rain forest, with a cast of characters including an order of reclusive monks and Rome's corrupt cardinals, courtesans, ambassadors, and nobles, The Pope's Rhinoceros is at once a fantastic adventure tale and a portrait of an age rushing headlong to its crisis.</p>

Pope's Rhinoceros

Literature & Fiction

Lawrence Norfolk

Genre Fiction

Henry Holt Company

In the Shape of a Boar

Phoenix Paperbacks

The May Anthologies: 2000: Short Stories

Short Stories & Anthologies

VARSITY PUBLICATIONS LTD

John Saturnall's Feast

<p>In 1625, while fleeing a baying mob, Johns mother tells him of a secret feast held in the woods for generations. To save all he holds dear, John must recreate the ancient ritual of the Saturnall Feast.</p>

BLOOMSBURY

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

Lempriere"s Worterbuch

Albrecht Knaus

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