I re-read this after a twenty year interval, and it's just as wonderful as I remembered it. I loved every page, the insightful proper history, the anachronistic cod-history jokes (the Barbary Corsair galley where the rowers are singing Hava Nagila, for example), the characters, the sweep. Just wonderful. I was on holiday, and couldn't wait for evening to come so that I could read more of it. I started re-reading the second book in the series as soon as I got home.
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