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Black Powder
註釋Set during the catastrophic New Madrid earthquake of 1812, Black Powder isthe story of Robert Young, a former captain in the Barbary Wars and his riverjourney on America's first steamboat to rescue the woman he loves from a gang ofriver pirates led by his cutthroat nemesis and former commander, Samuel Mason.En route, he encounters hostile Indians, swashbuckling battles, and severalhistorical figures, all set against the backdrop of an earthquake that sinksislands, reverses the flow of the Mississippi River, and wrenchingly exposes thefractures of a new nation itself.