Thus begins a series of epic adventures that see him curing Ruggiero of Sicilia and earning the favor of his mother, Adelaide, acting as Regent, escaping pirates and freeing slaves. After his father embarks on a dangerous mission to help free Jerusalem from Muslim control, Thoma travels from his home in Eynsham to study medicine in Salermo. Hutson-Wiley’s follow up to his debut, first in The Sugar Merchant series, follows 12th-century Thoma ibn Thomas, son of an English father and Moor mother. But dark forces are at play, and Thoma’s life is turned upside-down barely escaping from Sicily, he is captured and enslaved by pirates, befriends an assassin, gains and loses a fortune in gold, and finds himself plunged into political and religious turmoil of the early twelfth century Holy Land.
His first assignment takes him to Sicily, where he saves the life of a royal prince, deals with an epidemic and becomes the court physician. Thoma, son of Thomas Woodward, born in Egypt but raised in England, embarks on a dangerous and eventful journey that takes him to the famous Salernitan medical school to train as a physician. The adventures of a man torn between religious and political loyalties, and embroiled in international conflict and intrigue, The Travels of ibn Thomas, the second book in the series that began with The Sugar Merchant, is a gripping story of one man’s life, and a fascinating glimpse into the tumultuous twelfth century’s commercial and scientific revolution when the three Abrahamic faiths meet in both cooperation and deadly conflict.
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