Authors: Dorothy Dunnett
FIRST VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, MAY 2001
Copyright © 2000 by Dorothy Dunnett
Introduction copyright © 2000 by Judith Wilt
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American
Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Michael Joseph, London, and subsequently in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 2000.
Vintage and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
The Library of Congress has cataloged the Knopf edition as follows:
Dunnett, Dorothy.
Gemini / Dorothy Dunnett.
p. cm.—(The house of Niccolò)
eISBN: 978-0-307-76233-7
1. Vander Poele, Nicholas (Fictitious character)—Fiction.
2. Belgium—History—To 1555—Fiction. 3. Adventure and
adventurers—Fiction. 4. Flanders (Belgium)—Fiction.
5. Merchants—Fiction. I. Title.
PR6054.U56 G46 2000
823’.914—dc21 00-025027
Author photograph © Alison Dunnett
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