About the Author
WILLIAM DIETRICH is the author of Napoleon’s Pyramids, Scourge of God, and Hadrian’s Wall. A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, historian, and naturalist, he is a staff writer at the Seattle Times and a professor at Western Washington University. He lives in Washington State.
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A l s o b y Wi l l i a m D i e t r i c h
Fiction
Napoleon’s Pyramids
The Scourge of God
Hadrian’s Wall
Dark Winter
Getting Back
Ice Reich
Nonfiction
On Puget Sound
Natural Grace
Northwest Passage
The Final Forest
Credits
Designed by Kara Strubel
Map by Nick Springer, Springer Cartographics LLC
Copyright
THE ROSETTA KEY. Copyright © 2008 by William Dietrich. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
Adobe Acrobat eBook Reader February 2008
ISBN 978-0-06-164631-7
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Document Outline
Title Page
Dedication Page
Epigraph Page
Contents
Map
Part One
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Part Two
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Part Three
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Chapter Twenty-Five
Chapter Twenty-Six
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Historical Note
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Also by William Dietrich
Credits
Copyright Notice
About the Publisher