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The complete Rain Wild Chronicles by international bestselling author Robin Hobb. This bundle includes DRAGON KEEPER, DRAGON HAVEN, CITY OF DRAGONS and BLOOD OF DRAGONS.‘In today’s crowded fantasy market Robin Hobb’s books are like diamonds in a sea of zircons’ George R.R. MartinReturn to the world of the Liveship Traders and journey along the Rain Wild River, from the author of the internationally acclaimed Farseer Trilogy.Guided by the great blue dragon Tintaglia, they came from the sea: a Tangle of serpents fighting their way up the Rain Wilds River, the first to make the perilous journey in generations.But the creatures which emerge from the cocoons are a travesty of the powerful, shining dragons of old. Stunted and deformed, they cannot fly. Soon they become a danger and a burden to the Rain Wilders: something must be done. The dragons claim an ancestral memory of a fabled Elderling city far upriver: perhaps there they will find their true home. But Kelsingra appears on no maps and they cannot get there on their own: a band of dragon keepers, hunters and chroniclers must attend them.To be a dragon keeper is a dangerous job: their charges are vicious and unpredictable, and there are many unknown perils on the journey to a city which may not even exist …This bundle includes DRAGON KEEPER, DRAGON HAVEN, CITY OF DRAGONS and BLOOD OF DRAGONS.

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ROBIN HOBB

The Rain Wilds Chronicles: The Complete 4-Book Collection

The Dragon Keeper Dragon Haven City of Dragons Blood of Dragons

COPYRIGHT CONTENTS Cover Title Page Copyright The Dragon Keeper Dragon Haven - фото 2

COPYRIGHT CONTENTS Cover Title Page Copyright The Dragon Keeper Dragon Haven City of Dragons Blood of Dragons Keep Reading About the Author Also by the Author About the Publisher

This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

Harper Voyager

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The Dragon Keeper

Published by HarperCollins Publishers 2009

Copyright © Robin Hobb 2009

Cover Layout design © HarperCollins Publishers 2009

Dragon Haven

Published by HarperCollins Publishers 2010

Copyright © Robin Hobb 2010

Cover Layout design © HarperCollins Publishers 2010

City of Dragons

Published by HarperCollins Publishers 2012

Copyright © Robin Hobb 2012

Cover Layout design © HarperCollins Publishers 2012

Blood of Dragons

Published by HarperCollins Publishers 2013

Copyright © Robin Hobb 2013

Cover Layout design © HarperCollins Publishers 2013

Cover Illustrations © Jackie Morris 2014

Robin Hobb asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library

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Source ISBNs:

The Dragon Keeper: 9780007273744

Dragon Haven: 9780007335817

City of Dragons: 9780007273805

Blood of Dragons: 9780007444137

Ebook Edition © DECEMBER 2014 ISBN: 9780008113735

Version: 2017-11-01

CONTENTS

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Title Page ROBIN HOBB The Rain Wilds Chronicles: The Complete 4-Book Collection The Dragon Keeper Dragon Haven City of Dragons Blood of Dragons

Copyright

The Dragon Keeper

Dragon Haven

City of Dragons

Blood of Dragons

Keep Reading

About the Author

Also by the Author

About the Publisher

ROBIN HOBB

The Dragon Keeper

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CONTENTS

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Prologue: Serpents’ End

Chapter One: The Riverman

Chapter Two: The Hatch

Chapter Three: An Advantageous Offer

Chapter Four: Vows

Chapter Five: Blackmail and Lies

Chapter Six: Thymara’s Decision

Chapter Seven: Promises and Threats

Chapter Eight: Interviews

Chapter Nine: Journey

Chapter Ten: Cassarick

Chapter Eleven: Encounters

Chapter Twelve: Among Dragons

Chapter Thirteen: Suspicions

Chapter Fourteen: Scales

Chapter Fifteen: Currents

Chapter Sixteen: Community

Chapter Seventeen: Decisions

DEDICATION

To the memory of Spot and Smokey,

Brownie-butt and Rainbow, Rag-Bag and Sinbad.

Fine pigeons, one and all.

Day the 2nd of the Plough Moon

Year the 6th of the Reign of the Most Noble and Magnificent Satrap Cosgo

From Erek, Keeper of the Birds, Bingtown to Detozi, Keeper of the Birds, Trehaug

This night have dispatched to you four birds, bearing in two parts our agreement with the Dragon Tintaglia, to be ratified by the Rain Wild Council. Trader Devouchet, leader of the Bingtown Traders’ Council, suggested that duplicates be sent. They sum up the formal agreement between the Traders and the Dragon. We are to aid her serpents in travelling up the Rain Wild River in exchange for her assistance with defending the Trader cities and waterways against the Chalcedean invaders.

Please dispatch a bird as soon as possible to confirm receipt of this message.

Detozi,

A brief message of my own, penned in haste in a very small space. All is chaos here. My bird coop scorched in the fires the invaders set, many of my birds dead from smoke. I’m sending Kingsly as one of the messenger birds tonight. You know I raised him from a squab by hand after his parents died. Please keep him safe there and do not return him until we know that all is well. If Bingtown falls, treat him well and keep him as your own. Pray for us here. I do not know that Bingtown will survive this invasion, dragon or no.

Erek

PROLOGUE

Serpents’ End

They had come so far, yet now that she was here, the years of journeying were already fading in her mind, giving way to the desperate needs of the present. Sisarqua opened her jaws and bent her neck. It was hard for the sea serpent to focus her thoughts. It had been years since she had been completely out of the water. She had not felt dry land under her body since she had hatched on Other’s Island. She was far from Other’s Island’s hot dry sand and balmy waters now. Winter was closing in on this densely forested land beside the chill river. The mudbank under her coiled length was hard and abrasive. The air was too cold and her gills were drying out too quickly. There was nothing she could do about that except to work more swiftly. She scooped her jaws into the immense trough and came up with a mouthful of silver-streaked clay and river water. She threw her great head back and gulped it down. It was gritty and cold and strangely delicious. Another mouthful, another swallow. And again.

She had lost count of how many gulps of the grainy soup she had ingested when finally she felt the ancient reflex trigger. Working the muscles in her throat, she felt her poison sacs swell. Her fleshy mane stood out all around her throat in a toxic, quivering ruff. Shuddering down her full length, she opened her jaws wide, strained, gagged, and then met with success. She clamped and locked her jaws to contain the liquid, releasing it only as a thin, powerful stream of clay, bile and saliva tinged with venom. With difficulty, she turned her head and then coiled her tail closer to her body. The extrusion was like a silvery thread, thick and heavy. Her head wove as she layered the wet winding over herself.

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