# The Man Who Counts

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- Book: [The Man Who Counts](https://www.bookquiver.com/poul-anderson/the-man-who-counts) ([The Man Who Counts.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/poul-anderson/the-man-who-counts.md))
- Authors: [Poul Anderson](https://www.bookquiver.com/poul-anderson)
- Publisher: gateway
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-05-7510-877-6
- Published: 2014-07-31
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Nicholas Van Rijn: Interstellar Merchant Prince one moment, barbarian chattel the next. Marooned half a world and an ocean away from the sole human outpost on a planet whose very water is poisonous to humans; captured by winged barbarians in the midst of a brutal war of extermination, somehow 'Old Nick' must scheme, conspire, wrangle and battle his way to survival.