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Image:Fr-dk-1-jailu.jpg|French ''Dragons et serpents'' (2011)
Image:Leseauxacides.jpg|French ''Les eaux acides'' (2010)
Image:Fr-dk-2-jailu.jpg|French ''Les eaux acides'' (2012)
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[[Image:DragonKeeperHBfront.jpg|thumb|The cover for The Dragon Keeper UK hardcover editionand paperback editions, art by [[Jackie Morris]].]]
[[Image:Dragon Keeper US.jpg|thumb|The cover for the US hardcover edition of Dragon Keeper, art by [[Steve Stone]].]]
'''The Dragon Keeper''' is part one of [[Rain Wild Chronicles]]. It was originally meant to be a standalone book. When the manuscript grew too large to be a single book, it was split into two parts that were then published as "The Dragon Keeper" and [[Dragon Haven]]. A later sequel met with the same fate and was published as [[City of Dragons]] and [[Blood of Dragons]], making the chronicles a four volume series.<ref>http://fantasy-faction.com/2013/robin-hobb-interview Fantasy faction Robin Hobb interview</ref>
The story takes place in the [[Rain Wilds]] and [[Bingtown]] some time after the events in [[Ship of MagicDestiny]] and [[Fool's Fate]]. Like the [[Liveship Traders trilogy|Liveship Traders]], the story is told in third person. The viewpoint characters are [[Thymara]], [[Alise Kincarron]], [[Sisarqua]]/[[Sintara]], [[Leftrin]] and [[Sedric Meldar]]. Notes sent between two [[Keeper of the Birds|Keepers of the Birds]], [[Erek]] and [[Detozi]] are set between each chapter of the book.
==Dedication==
* An Australian/New Zealand trade paperback the 1st of July 2009 with ISBN 9780007273768.
* A US hardcover edition by HarperCollins/Eos January the 26th 2010 with ISBN 0061561622 (or 9780061561627 ?). Cover art by [[Steve Stone]].
** At least some of the US Advance Reading Copies of this book were tied with a leather string with a tiny dragon charm attached to it. The ARCs sent out seem to have had more or less the final cover design with a tiny round "stamp" declaring them as ARCs. The cover design with red and white font seem to have been used in online marketing only.
* A US mass market paperback by HarperVoyager in January/February 2011 with ISBN 9780061561658. First printed with the Steve Stone cover, later reprints with the Jackie Morris one using the same ISBN.
Image:Us-dragonkeeper-arc.jpg|US ARC
Image:Us-pb-dragonkeeper.jpg|US paperback
File:Us-dk.pb.jpg|US paperback reprints
Image:61ae-uAzmHL. SS500 .jpg|UK audio book
Image:US-dragonkeeper-audio.jpeg|US audio book
Image:9024528763.gif|Dutch, ''Drakenhoeder''
Image:Dragonsetserpents.jpg|French ''Dragons et serpents'' (2010)
Image:Leseauxacides.jpg|French ''Les eaux acides'' (2010)
Image:Fr-dk-1-jailu.jpg|French ''Dragons et serpents'' (2011)
Image:Fr-dk-2-jailu.jpg|French ''Les eaux acides'' (2012)
Image:Fr-dk-1-loisirs.jpg|French ''Dragons et serpents''
Image:Fr-dk-2-loisirs.jpg|French ''Les eaux acides''
Image:Fr-dk-combined.jpg|French ''Dragons et serpents'' & ''Les eaux acides''
Image:De-dragonkeeper.jpg|German, ''Drachenhüter''