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The Qurayn Hostage: Book 1 – The Northerly Isles Kindle Edition

by John Perry (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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What would the pre-modern world be like if, back in the seventh century, the Muslim Arab invaders had been stopped not at the Pyrenees but at the Zagros mountains? If Islamic rule had been established over almost the whole of Christian Europe and much of the Americas, leaving most of Asia to be subjugated by Buddhist Turco-Mongols, and the remaining lands – and seas – of North America, Europe, and Asia by pagan descendants of the Vikings?
We learn the answer from the journal of Umar, a young Arabian prince fleeing captivity in a northern outpost of the Caliphate. As he tricks and fights his way to freedom in the company of two other fugitives, each with peculiar talents, no religion or society is spared in this fast-paced satirical survey of a world at once utterly different from, and eerily similar to, the one we happen to inhabit.
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    156 pages
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    English
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  4. Publication date
    November 20, 2013
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00CG6ETSU
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ John Perry; 1st edition (November 20, 2013)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 20, 2013
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1439 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 156 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
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Alternate history is one of my favorite genres & when well constructed makes for a lot if fun thinking "Yeah, that could of been. This book does a great job of telling how our world could look with only a few historical changes & does it with well rounded characters.
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