Word: cyrano
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...allayed all fears. The Fabulous Riverboat gives Burton some delightful traveling companions. He and the grownup Alice Liddell Hargreaves (child model for Lewis Carroll's Alice) meet a cynical fellow named Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who constructs a side-wheel steamer to voyage upriver. The second volume also introduces Cyrano de Bergerac and England's King John, who attempted to steal the throne from his brother Richard in real life and who hijacks Clemens' boat on the Riverworld. But while these two books and the third volume, The Dark Design, drop some clues about the creators...