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Buy this book on-line PEREZ-REVERTE**, ARTURO: : THE NAUTICAL CHART: A NOVEL OF ADVENTURE. [Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.]LONDON.PICADOR, 2002. ISBN 0330486160.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,clean,colour photographic illustrated upper wrap; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Miniscule bumping and rubbing to rear boards top corner - bd's corner though,unaffected.Top+fore-edges lightly aged/toned with some minimal, unobtrusive spotting/foxing.Sharp-cornered,clean,publisher's original plain dark blue cloth boards with bright,crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip, headband,and immaculate cream+brown map illustated eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1- 465pp [paginated] includes 16 chapters, plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages, quotation,contents list/table,and repeated
title separator page.
Lost treasure,love,and betrayal on the high seas - an extraordinary new novel by the master of mystery and suspense.
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.
Tanger Soto,who works for the Naval Museum in Madrid,is obsessed with the Dei
Gloria,a Jesuit ship sunk by corsairs in the seventeenth century,and now - she hopes - resting on the bottom of the sea off the southern coast of Spain.Tanger 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 Perez-Reverte with the romance and mystery
of the sea found in the novels of Melville,Conrad,and O'Brian.An unforgettable adventure.
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