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The Nautical Chart
by Perez-Reverte, Arturo
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- ISBN 10
- 0330486179
- ISBN 13
- 9780330486170
- Seller
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Clarence Gardens, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Inc.. 2001. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. 466 pages. A meticulously plotted sea-faring thriller as only Perez-Reverte can write. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st US Edition. Hardback.
Synopsis
Coy is a suspended sailor with time on his hands, a mariner without a ship. While attending a maritime auction in Barcelona, he meets a beautiful woman who immediately captures his imagination. Tánger Soto, who works for the Naval Museum in Madrid, is obsessed with the Dei Gloria, a Jesuit ship sunk by pirates in the seventeenth century, and now-she hopes-resting on the bottom of the sea off the southern coast of Spain. Tánger uses her considerable manipulative skills with men and her expertise with documents, atlases, and nautical maps to chart the search for lost treasure. Coy is quickly drawn into the search, and before long finds himself falling in love. Along with El Piloto, the world-wise old man of the sea whose sailboat will carry this adventurous crew, they seek their fortune together. Or do they? As these lively characters follow the course of past sailors, their own journey becomes perilous. Are there secrets dwelling in the depths of the sea? And what of the depths of the heart? This highly intelligent and meticulously plotted novel combines the richness of atmosphere we have come to expect from Pérez-Reverte with the romance and mystery of the sea found in the novels of Melville, Conrad, and O'Brian. An unforgettable adventure. "The master of the intellectual thriller."-- San Francisco Chronicle
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- Bookseller
- Adelaide Booksellers
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BIB263674
- Title
- The Nautical Chart
- Author
- Perez-Reverte, Arturo
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used -
- Edition
- 1st US Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0330486179
- ISBN 13
- 9780330486170
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2001
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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Clarence Gardens, South Australia
About Adelaide Booksellers
Antiquarian and Secondhand Bookseller. Member ANZAAB.Founded in 1979, Adelaide Booksellers is one of Adelaide's oldest and most respected secondhand and antiquarian booksellers. Members of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers [ANZAAB]. Has Adelaide's most comprehensive selection of book on military history. Also a very good range of Australiana books, Childrens's Books, Art and History books.Something for every budget. Now primarily an online/telephone seller but open to the public by arrangement.
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