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March to the Sea
SOME DAYS IT JUST DOESN'T PAY TO
GET OUT OF YOUR SLEEPING BAG
The successor to March Upcountry
It wasn't so much that Prince Roger and his surviving remnant of elite bodyguards are marooned on a barbarian planet. Or that they have been on continuous operations for so long they are getting shocky. Or that they still have half a planet to cross. Or that they are basically out of ammunition for their plasma and bead rifles and just about out of cash. Sure, those are all problems, but they're not the real problem.
No, the problem is Roger is in love. With one of his bodyguards. And the romance is not going well. Damnbeast? Sure. Vampiric moths? Okay. Screaming waves of barbarians? No problem. But when you have Nimashet Despreaux and Prince Roger Ramius Sergei Chiang MacClintock at sword's point, that's real danger.
And it's just the beginning.
To get to the distant port that is their only way off the planet, they'll be forced to battle enraged monsters, displaced mercenaries, religious fanatics and a barbarian horde to shame the Huns. Along the way they'll have to recreate the Reformation, the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution. And do it all in a context their four-armed, horned, grizzly-bear sized native allies can handle.
It will strain all their experience and knowledge, as the most elite, the most multitalented and above all the toughest bodyguards in human space. But the really hard part will be keeping Roger and Nimashet from killing each other.
Cover art by Patrick Turner
Interior maps by John Ringo






Hardcover

Paperback
This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.
First printing, August 2001
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
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New York, NY 10020
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Weber, David, 1952–

March to the sea / by David Weber & John Ringo.p. cm.ISBN 0-671-31826-81. Princes—Fiction. 2. Life on other planets—Fiction. I. Ringo, John, 1963–II. Title.

PS3573.E217 M35 2001813'.54—dc21 2001025925
Production by Windhaven Press, Auburn, NHPrinted in the United States of America


ISBN-13: 978-0-671-31826-0ISBN-10: 0-671-31826-8
Copyright© 2001 by David Weber & John Ringo
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.
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For "Uncle Steve" Griswold, USMC,
The "barbarian" who taught me that people are always responsible for their own actions, but that sometimes good people have to take the responsibility for fixing other people's mistakes. You did . . . for thirty-one years. God Bless.
Dedicated to Charles Gonzalez:
The sort of person who would discuss quantum mechanics, dialects of Amazonian tribes and garroting German sentries with an impressionable twelve-year-old.
 
ALSO IN THIS SERIES
March UpcountryMarch to the Stars (forthcoming)
BAEN BOOKS by DAVID WEBER
Honor Harrington:On Basilisk StationThe Honor of the QueenThe Short Victorious WarField of DishonorFlag in ExileHonor Among Enemies
In Enemy HandsEchoes of HonorAshes of Victory
edited by David Weber:More than HonorWorlds of HonorChanger of Worlds
Mutineers' MoonThe Armageddon InheritanceHeirs of Empire
Path of the Fury
The Apocalypse Troll
Oath of SwordsThe War God's Own
with Steve White:
InsurrectionCrusadeIn Death Ground
BAEN BOOKS by JOHN RINGO
A Hymn Before BattleGust FrontWhen the Devil Dances




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