title: Mad Ship (The Liveship Traders, Book 2)
author:  Robin Hobb 
description: Robin Hobb returns to the sea with <i>Mad Ship</i>, the second book in a projected trilogy set in the same world as her famed <i>Farseer</i> series. Many unresolved questions from <i><a href="/exec/obidos/ASIN/0553103245/${0}">Ship of Magic</a></i> are answered in this tale of sea serpents and dragons; living ships made of wizardwood; the Bingtown Trader families who sail the ships; and their disfigured cousins, the Rain Wild Traders, who build them.
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  # Liveship Traders 2 - The Mad Ship
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Description:
  
  
  In Ship of Magic, the breathtaking first volume in her new fantasy trilogy,
  Robin Hobb
  
  
  wrote of the Liveship Traders of Bingtown. Now a new tide of glory and terror
  sweeps
  
  
  forward the story of the proud Vestrit clan, their priceless liveship Vivacia,
  and all who
  
  
  strive to possess her.
  
  
  “If Patrick O'Brian were to turn to writing fantasy, he might produce
  something like
  
  
  this,” raves Booklist, and truer words have never been spoken. This is a tale
  of the Old
  
  
  Traders of Bingtown and their rare magic ships-carved from sentient wizardwood
  that bonds
  
  
  them mystically with those who sail them. Theirs is an ancient tradition, but
  one that is
  
  
  slowly eroding under the harsh realities of a cold new order.
  
  
  For these once proud Traders, it is a humbling lesson to learn that the
  foundations of
  
  
  their world, which had seemed immutable, are resting on shifting sands. Their
  corrupt
  
  
  ruler is deeding away their ancestral lan