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The Chrysanthemum Tiger
First published 2024
March 1605. Having discovered that the injury which once ended his life at sea no longer causes disabling sickness, Gabriel Taverner accepts work from the wealthy merchant Walter Haverleigh. He joins the Luipaard as ship’s doctor for a voyage to the Eastern seas, leaving his Devon practice and family circle behind for an expedition shaped by commerce and uncertainty.
The long voyage returns Gabriel to the enclosed, hierarchical world of a ship, where illness, discipline and private motives must be judged far from familiar legal authority. Against the rapid expansion of early seventeenth-century maritime trade, his medical skills become inseparable from questions of trust and survival as the expedition moves deeper into unfamiliar waters.
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