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.
zlib_text: Mad Ship
  by Robin Hobb
  Book Two of the Liveship Traders Trilogy
  A Bantam Spectra Book/April 1999
  All rights reserved.
  Copyright ©1999 by Robin Hobb
  Map illustration by James Sinclair
  Book design by Laurie Jewell
  Jacket illustration © Stephen Youll
  Jacket design by Jamie S. Warren Youll
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  Hobb, Robin.
  Mad ship / Robin Hobb.
  p. cm. - (The liveship traders : bk. 2)
  ISBN 0-553-10333-4
  Bantam Books, 1540 Broadway, New York, New York 10036.
  Visit Bantam's website at www.bantam.com/spectra
  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 