All the time they bring progress, and all the time they talk at each other. The Indian potentate known as the Kerala humbles Islamic and Chinese power, and the Chinese radical Bao helps humanise the Chinese revolution that follows seven decades of universal war. And it is the tale of Khalid and Bharam, the Samarkand alchemists who discover gravity, calculus and poison gas and die of plague. It is the tale of the man-eating tiger Kya and Bistami, the young scholar whom she spares and inspires, and of Katima, the proto-feminist Sultana he serves on the Islamic frontier of Northern Europe. So this is the tale of Bold, the Mongol horseman who finds Europe dead and Kyu, the young African eunuch with whom he is a slave in China.
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