Tres halcones para Tamerlán

Segovia, 1403: an Eastern emissary offered King Henry III an extraordinary gift: three women of remarkable beauty. Castile was to respond with a gift of equal or greater value. The choice: three royal falcons. Jesús Sánchez Adalid invites us to relive this historical epic through the eyes of Alvar, a young apprentice falconer who accompanies the royal embassy to guard the precious birds. Thus begins a dazzling journey that will take him across the Mediterranean to Constantinople, past the ruins of Troy and the splendor of Byzantium, to the steppes of Central Asia and the brilliance of Samarkand. It will be an adventure of resilience and faith, marked by storms, intrigues between Venetians and Genoese, mysterious stopovers on remote islands, and the inner struggle of a young man who learns to see the world with new eyes. With exquisite and captivating prose, Sánchez Adalid brings to today's readers a medieval gem almost erased from the memory of Spain, but whose magnitude rivals the great expeditions of the past: the mythical chronicle Embassy to Tamerlane written by Ruy González de Clavijo at the beginning of the 15th century.