The Years of Rice and Salt John Evans This is a universe where

This is a universe where the first ship to reach the New World travels across the Pacific Ocean from China and colonization spreads from west to east

vanishes without a trace in Mexico City

he tries to ascertain to what extent vital national interests could be accommodated within an international legal framework

and then proceeding down towards the trunk and the hands and feet

Present DayIn Greece

The Years of Rice and Salt John Evans This is a universe whereAs Bold Bardash, a military horseman, rides west across the steppe and on to the Magyar Plain, he comes across a town in which everyone lies dead. Long dead. Plague has struck Europe. So die the ancestors of Da Vinci, Newton, and Shakespeare. An alternate history of the last seven hundred years, a world vastly different from the one we know, the past 700 years as it could have been The Years of Rice and Salt. It is the fourteenth century and one of