French cover: La Conquête de la Liberté
The Liveship Traders — French volume 3

The Mad Ship (Part 1)

The Vivacia rebels. The Paragon stays chained. And Bingtown rises.

This page follows the French volume split. Several French volumes may belong to one original English novel. The cover and linked ISBN may come from different French editions.

Original novel published
1999
French publishers
Pygmalion / J'ai Lu
Linked French ISBN
9782290337066
Original English novel
The Mad Ship

Synopsis

Captured by Kennit, the Vivacia bonds with the pirate. Wintrow discovers an unthinkable vocation. Althea seeks to redeem the Paragon, a mad liveship left to rot. And in Bingtown, the Traders realize their city is tipping over.

First third of The Mad Ship, this volume sets up the trilogy's central stake: the consciousness of the liveships. The Paragon, abandoned for decades, howls his loneliness. Althea attempts the impossible: to refloat this living dead to go searching for the Vivacia. Meanwhile, Malta Vestrit forcibly traverses her adolescence, and the court of Jamaillia draws closer.

Every being who remembers is free.The Mad Ship (Part 1) — Robin Hobb

Key characters

Themes

Freedom, Madness, Rebellion, Consciousness

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