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La Carta Esferica / The Nautical Chart (Spanish edition)
La Carta Esferica / The Nautical Chart - Spanish edition Author:Arturo Perez-Reverte A nautical chart can be much more than an indispensable instrument to navigate from one place to another; it is an etching, a page from history, and sometimes even an adventure novel. Just published by Alfaguara, La carta esf�rica by Arturo P�rez-Reverte is the story of a sailor without a ship, exiled from the ocean, who meets a woman who retur... more »ns to him the adventure of the sea. Never have the ocean and its history, the science of navigation, adventure and mystery, been combined in such an extraordinary manner as is done in this novel. Only Arturo P�rez-Reverte could have accomplished this. Blurb in Spanish:
Un marino sin barco, desterrado del mar, conoce a una extra�a mujer que posee, tal sin saberlo, respuestas a preguntas que ciertos hombres se hacen desde hace siglos. Nunca el mar y la Historia, la ciencia de la navegaci�n, la aventura y el misterio, se hab�an combinado de modo tan extraodinario en una novela, como en La carta esf�rica. De Melville a Stevenson y Conrad, de Homero a Patrick O'Brian, toda la gran literatura escrita sobre el mar late en las p�ginas de esta historia fascinante, e inolvidable.« less