Harvill Secker, London, 2009. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Illustrator: Author plus others. The text is illustrated by the author and other artists. Illustrated card cover with metalic copper and dark green coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. T. S. Spivet is a genius mapmaker, who lives with his father, the silent cowboy, his mother, a scientist, and a dog who is slowly going mad. To keep sense of it all T. S. Create beautiful meticulous maps, so much so the Smithsonian Institute award him a major scientific prize. T. S. Spivet is 12 years old. These are his adventures when he sets off to collect his prize. A little creasing of the book corners with rubbing of the book edges and panels. Age toning of the text block edges with some bumping of the lower edge from page 323 to the end of the book Â– please see photograph. Size: Square Quarto. 374, [18] pages.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Author plus others. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Literature & Literary; ISBN: 1846552788. ISBN/EAN: 9781846552786. Inventory No: 0125591. . 9781846552786

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Discover The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet for iPad. A brilliant, boundary-leaping debut novel tracing twelve-year-old genius map maker T.S. Spivet's attempts to understand the ways of the world When twelve-year-old genius cartographer T.S. Spivet receives an unexpected phone call from the Smithsonian announcing he has won the prestigious Baird Award, life as normal-if you consider mapping family dinner table conversation normal-is interrupted and a wild cross-country adventure begins, taking T.S. from his family ranch just north of Divide, Montana, to the museum's hallowed halls. T.S. sets out alone, leaving before dawn with a plan to hop a freight train and hobo east. Once aboard, his adventures step into high gear and he meticulously maps, charts, and illustrates his exploits, documenting mythical wormholes in the Midwest, the urban phenomenon of "rims," and the pleasures of McDonald's, among other things. We come to see the world through T.S.'s eyes and in his thorough investigation of the outside world he also reveals himself. As he travels away from the ranch and his family we learn how the journey also brings him closer to home. A secret family history found within his luggage tells the story of T.S.'s ancestors and their long-ago passage west, offering profound insight into the family he left behind and his role within it. As T.S. reads he discovers the sometimes shadowy boundary between fact and fiction and realizes that, for all his analytical rigor, the world around him is a mystery. All that he has learned is tested when he arrives at the capital to claim his prize and is welcomed into science's inner circle. For all its shine, fame seems more highly valued than ideas in this new world and friends are hard to find. T.S.'s trip begins at the Copper Top Ranch and the last known place he stands is Washington, D.C., but his journey's movement is far harder to track: How do you map the delicate lessons learned about family and self? How do you depict how it feels to first venture out on your own? Is there a definitive way to communicate the ebbs and tides of heartbreak, loss, loneliness, love? These are the questions that strike at the core of this very special debut.

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Bookseller: Syber's Books ABN 40533682787 (AU)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 0125591
Title: The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet
Author: Larsen, Reif
Illustrator: Author plus others
Format/Binding: Softcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good Condition
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 1846552788
ISBN 13: 9781846552786
Publisher: Harvill Secker
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 2009
Keywords: BZDB2 literature, child cartographers, Montana, travels Literature & Literary; Author plus others Unbranded ISBN: 1846552788 EAN: 9781846552786 Larsen, Reif The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet

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