2019/30: Blood of Tyrants -- Naomi Novik

2019/30: Blood of Tyrants -- Naomi Novik

... when Laurence put his hands to it, he found he knew how to climb up, and his body remembered the seat in the elbow's crook as though he were going blindfold up into the rigging. Laurence sat still a moment with the book open upon his lap, struggling with a kind of horror between bone-deep familiarity and endless strangeness. [p. 168]

In which Temeraire and Laurence go to Japan, and then head west.
( no major spoilers )