The Golden Wind

The Golden Wind
Dust-jacket illustration for The Golden Wind
AuthorL. Sprague de Camp
Cover artistJennifer Parrott
LanguageEnglish
GenreHistorical novel
PublisherDoubleday
Publication date
1969
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Hardback)
Pages288
Preceded byThe Bronze God of Rhodes 

The Golden Wind is a historical novel by American writer L. Sprague de Camp, first published in 1969,[1] and telling the story of the Egyptian Greek seafarers Eudoxus of Cyzicus and Hippalus, who were the first in the Graeco-Roman world to travel by sea from Egypt to India in around 118 BCE.

It is the fifth and last of de Camp's historical novels, both in order of writing and terms of the historical episode described.

  1. ^ Laughlin, Charlotte; Daniel J. H. Levack (1983). De Camp: An L. Sprague de Camp Bibliography. San Francisco: Underwood/Miller. p. 60.