Scales Of Gold (House Of Niccolo Series, Book 4)

1464-1467 in Venice, Spain, Madeira and Africa

Plot

Eager to expand his commercial empire, ambitious merchant banker Nicholas van der Poele travels to Africa, followed by Gelis van Borselen, a determined young woman who blames Nicholas for her sister's death. Reprint. 12,500 first printing. 1464-1467. Set largely in Venice, Spain, Madeira, and Africa, during a voyage to discover the source of West African gold, and a West-East route to the Christian Ethiopian kingdom of Prester John. The volumes are as follows: Niccolò Rising (1986) Spring of the Ram (1987) Race of Scorpions (1989) Scales of Gold (1991) The Unicorn Hunt (1993) To Lie with Lions (1995) Caprice and Rondo (1997) Gemini (2000)