博客來To escape debt and legal summonses, Lord Exford is sent abroad in 1788 in the dubious company of Winstanley, a prudish clergyman, and Higgins, a truculent artist.
Shipwrecked on the island of Negropont-modern Euboea-then under Ottoman rule, they encounter Amelia, a botanist, feminist, and intrepid explorer, and her camel, Rousseau. As pirates, renegades, minstrels, and djinn cross their path, the travellers are drawn into a world of cultural collision, political intrigue, and forbidden desire.
Befuddled by love, hashish, and his classical education, Winstanley pits himself against the might of the Sultan, while it falls to the wily Lord Exford to rescue his eccentric companions from an unspeakable fate.
