- Title:
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Sacred Hunger
- Written by:
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Barry Unsworth
- Read by:
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David Rintoul
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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18
- Duration:
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22 hours 16 minutes
- Published:
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July 28 2016
- Available Date:
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July 28 2016
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781489353986
- Genres:
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Fiction; Historical Fiction; Literary Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Audible audio
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Format
Price
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1752, the Liverpool Merchant sets sail from Merseyside ...
1752, the Liverpool Merchant sets sail from Merseyside. A slaver, she is bound for Africa to buy men and transport them in chains across the Atlantic.
But aboard ship disease thrives in the cramped hold, killing men and eating into profit. Captain Thurso insists on throwing the sick overboard, to the horror of Matthew Paris, ship's surgeon, who determines to prevent such barbarity.
Meanwhile, back home, Erasmus Kemp, cousin of Paris and son of the Liverpool Merchant's owner, finds his fortune hanging in the balance: dependent on the success or failure of a single voyage ...