Map of the Celestial Sphere, or the Secret Meridian
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Map of the Celestial Sphere, or the Secret Meridian
14.99 €
1767, February. Off the coast of Spain, the sailing ship Dei Gloria, belonging to the Jesuit order, perishes after engaging in a battle with pirates. The cabin boy, the only one who survived, mysteriously disappears without having time to properly tell about what happened. All he managed to tell was the coordinates of the place of the tragedy... Spain, present day. Navigator Manuel Coy, temporarily deprived of the right to engage in ship activities for running the ship aground, meets a girl at an auction who bought an old sea chart for a lot of money. Tanger Soto, an employee of a museum in Madrid, is maniacally obsessed with the idea of finding the lost ship, which, as she believes, was carrying a cargo of extreme importance. She takes Manuel Coy as an assistant as an experienced navigation specialist. The girl knows very well that she has crossed the path of powerful and dangerous forces that are capable of doing anything to eliminate their rival, but this does not stop her...
Arturo Perez-Reverte is a former military journalist, a renowned author of brilliant historical, military, and adventure novels translated into forty languages, the creator of the cycle about Captain Diego Alatriste, and the winner of prestigious literary awards. His bestseller "The Map of the Celestial Sphere, or the Secret Meridian" is an intellectual thriller in the best traditions of the "Dumas Club" and "The Flemish Board". The ghosts of all the world's sailors are hovering here. Here Perez-Reverte, himself an experienced sailor, pays tribute to Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad, Herman Melville, and Patrick O'Brian. Here, sea adventures are inseparable from history, literature, and love.
Arturo Perez-Reverte is a former military journalist, a renowned author of brilliant historical, military, and adventure novels translated into forty languages, the creator of the cycle about Captain Diego Alatriste, and the winner of prestigious literary awards. His bestseller "The Map of the Celestial Sphere, or the Secret Meridian" is an intellectual thriller in the best traditions of the "Dumas Club" and "The Flemish Board". The ghosts of all the world's sailors are hovering here. Here Perez-Reverte, himself an experienced sailor, pays tribute to Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad, Herman Melville, and Patrick O'Brian. Here, sea adventures are inseparable from history, literature, and love.
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