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"In 1812 London, Thames River Police Chief Charles Horton discovers that a series of bizarre deaths are connected to the cargo of a research vessel bound for Kew Gardens."@en
"In 1812 London, Thames River Police Chief Charles Horton discovers that a series of bizarre deaths are connected to the cargo of a research vessel bound for Kew Gardens."
"LONDON 1812: For forty years Britain has dreamed of the Pacific island of Tahiti, a dark paradise of bloody cults and beautiful natives. Now, decades after the first voyage of Captain Cook, a new ship returns to London, crammed with botanical specimens and, it seems, the mysteries of Tahiti. When, days after the Solander's arrival, some of its crew are found dead and their sea-chests ransacked - their throats slashed, faces frozen into terrible smiles - John Harriott, magistrate of the Thames river police, puts constable Charles Horton in charge of the investigation. But what connects the crewmen's dying dreams with the ambitions of the ship's principal backer, Sir Joseph Banks of the Royal Society?"@en
""London 1812. The Solander returns to London from Tahiti crammed with botanical specimens and the mysteries of the natives. When members of its crew are found dead and their sea-chests ransacked, Constable Charles Horton is put in charge of the investigation. But what connects the crewmen's dying dreams with the ambitions of the ship's principal backer, Sir Joseph Banks of the Royal Society? And what of the strangeness of the Tahitian flowers now growing at Kew? Horton must uncover a chain of conspiracy stretching all the way back to the foot of the great volcano Tahiti Nui, beneath the hungry eyes of ancient gods."--Back cover."
"London 1812. The arrival of the Solander is something of an event among the social and cultural cognoscenti of the metropolis. After all, what could be more romantic than a restaging of Captain Cook's first voyage on the Endeavour? Hundreds of cuttings from the paradise island of Otaheite have been planted throughout the ship, intended to stock the gardens and greenhouses of Kew, the place in which English horticulture is fused with British ambition. For according to Sir Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society, it is by owning and adapting the natural world to its own ends that Britain will shape the future of the world. Banks has asked that John Harriott, magistrate of the Thames river police, take a personal interest in the ship's security. When, one by one, members of the Solander crew are found dead in their beds, their faces twisted into hideous expressions, their sea chests ransacked, Hopkins puts detective Charles Horton in charge of the investigation. As Horton and his wife, Abigail, are drawn deeper into the twisting streets of riverside Wapping, it becomes clear that this is a story that began far from the London docks, near the foot of great Tahiti Nui, in the shadow of the dead volcano and beneath the hungry eyes of unforgiving ancient gods. -- [Back-cover]"@en
"London 1812. The arrival of the Solander is something of an event among the social and cultural cognoscenti of the metropolis. After all, what could be more romantic than a restaging of Captain Cook's first voyage on the Endeavour? When members of it's crew are found dead and their sea-chests ransacked, Constable Charles Horton is put in charge of the investigation. But what connects the crewmen's dying dreams with the ambitions of the ship's principal backer, Sir Joseph Banks of the Royal Society?"
"Tahiti 1769. English sailors arrive on the shores of the Polynesian paradise? a place of staggering beauty where magic and ancient myths still hold sway. But they soon devastate the island with disease, war, and death, planting deadly seeds that will be carried back to England forty years later. London 1812. On a gray June morning, the SolanderSolander starts dying one by one. Thames River Police Chief Charles Horton can find no signs of murder or suicide to explain the deaths, and the ship?s surviving crew seems intent on hampering his investigation. When one of the plants begins to show frightening changes, it is up to Charles Horton to determine how it might be stopped."@en

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"Suspense fiction"@en
"Suspense fiction"
"History"@en
"History"
"Historical fiction"@en
"Historical fiction"
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"Fiction"
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"The Poisoned Island : a novel"@en
"The Poisoned Island : a novel"
"The Poisoned Island"@en
"The poisoned island"@en
"The poisoned island"
"The Poisoned Island a Novel"@en

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