6lib.ru - Электронная Библиотека
Название книги: THE CRYSTAL CITY
Автор(ы): Orson Card
Жанр: Научная Фантастика
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/THE-CRYSTAL-CITY-230193.html
1
Nueva BarcelonaIT SEEMED LIKE everybody and his brother was in Nueva Barcelona these days. It was steamboats, mostly, that brought them. Even though the fog on the Mizzippy made it so a white man couldn't cross the river to the west bank, the steamboats could make the trip up and down the channel, carrying goods and passengers-which was the same as saying they carried money and laid it into the laps of whoever happened to be running things at the river's mouth.These days that meant the Spanish, officially, anyway. They owned Nueva Barcelona and it had their troops all over it.But the very presence of those troops said something. One thing it said was that the Spanish weren't so sure they could hold on to the city. Wasn't that many years since the place was called New Orleans and there was still plenty of places in the city where you better speak French or you couldn't find a bite to eat or a place to sleep-and if you spoke Spanish there, you might just wake up with your throat slit.It didn't surpris
Название книги: THE CRYSTAL CITY
Автор(ы): Orson Card
Жанр: Научная Фантастика
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/THE-CRYSTAL-CITY-230193.html
1
Nueva BarcelonaIT SEEMED LIKE everybody and his brother was in Nueva Barcelona these days. It was steamboats, mostly, that brought them. Even though the fog on the Mizzippy made it so a white man couldn't cross the river to the west bank, the steamboats could make the trip up and down the channel, carrying goods and passengers-which was the same as saying they carried money and laid it into the laps of whoever happened to be running things at the river's mouth.These days that meant the Spanish, officially, anyway. They owned Nueva Barcelona and it had their troops all over it.But the very presence of those troops said something. One thing it said was that the Spanish weren't so sure they could hold on to the city. Wasn't that many years since the place was called New Orleans and there was still plenty of places in the city where you better speak French or you couldn't find a bite to eat or a place to sleep-and if you spoke Spanish there, you might just wake up with your throat slit.It didn't surpris
Навигация с клавиатуры: следующая страница - или ,
предыдущая -
