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Olivier, the priggish son of French aristocrats, embarks on a tour of America in the early nineteenth century, accompanied by Parrot, a survivor of Australia's penal system who has been hired as both servant and secret spy by Olivier's mother, and while the two men, at polar ends of society, start out hating each other, they eventually become fast friends.

"On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. Its mission was "to proceed all the way to the ends of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas" and unite the whole world in Confucian harmony.". "When it returned in October 1423, the emperor had fallen, leaving China in political and economic chaos. The great ships were left to rot at their moorings and the records of their journeys were destroyed....

The fictitious memoirs of the first black explorer of America, a Moroccan slave in 1527 whose testimony was left out of the official record. In 1527, the conquistador P©Łnfilo de Narv©Łez sailed from the port of Sanl©ðcar de Barrameda with a crew of six hundred men and nearly a hundred horses. His goal was to claim what is now the Gulf Coast of the United States for the Spanish crown and, in the process, become as wealthy and famous as Hern©Łn...

As a photographer with a broken leg, Stewart takes up the fine art of spying on his Greenwich Village neighbors during a summer heat wave. Things really begin to get hot when he suspects a salesman may have murdered his nagging wife and buried the body in a flower garden. He actively enlists the help of his girlfriend to investigate the highly suspicious chain of events. Events that ultimately lead to one of the most memorable and gripping endings...