Voyage of the Basilisk
core novel 2015 The Memoirs of Lady Trent
Record
| First published | 2015 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.19 (12,034 ratings, collected 2026-08-28) |
| Page count | 370 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780765331984 |
| Internal chronology | 3 |
Synopsis
In this third volume of the Memoirs of Lady Trent, Isabella Camherst sets out on her most ambitious undertaking yet, a two-year voyage aboard the ship Basilisk intended to study a wide range of dragon species scattered across the world, from sea-serpents to feathered dragons to smaller lizard-like varieties. She writes this account partly to set the record straight against the exaggerated versions of the voyage that have circulated since, describing storms, shipwrecks, and visits to ancient ruins along the way. The journey also marks the first expedition Isabella shares with her young son Jake, and brings her into contact with Suhail, a scholar of antiquities whose own interests increasingly intersect with her research into dragons across many distant shores.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Memoirs of Lady Trent
- Series: The Memoirs of Lady Trent core; position 3 of 5 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Marie Brennan
Notes
- From the series record (The Memoirs of Lady Trent): A five-book sequence narrated as the memoirs of a fictional Victorian-analogue naturalist who studies dragons; a companion novel set generations later is treated as a separate spin-off, not part of this Core Canon sequence.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Memoirs of Lady Trent: position 3 of 5: previous The Tropic of Serpents (2014) · next In the Labyrinth of Drakes (2016)
Sources
- The Memoirs of Lady Trent - Wikipedia
- https://fantasy-hive.co.uk/2025/06/voyage-of-the-basilisk-by-marie-brennan-book-review/
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