by Luis Miguel Ariza · Ediciones Martínez Roca · tapa dura · ISBN 9788427036017
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«Los hijos del cielo» is the historical novel by Luis Miguel Ariza, published by Ediciones Martínez Roca in hardback (544 pages, in Spanish).
In 1805, the Spanish doctor Xavier Balmis wants to take the smallpox vaccine to China by transporting it in the bodies of orphaned children. Pirates, hostile authorities and the disappearance of Tomás, the last of those children, bring the mission to the brink of failure. To save it, he must deal with the pirate queen Dragon-Woman and with an emperor's spy.
First volume in the MR Historical Novel collection. Published in 2010 in Barcelona by Ediciones Martínez Roca.
For readers of historical and adventure novels, interested in real scientific expeditions and imperial China.
