Map of the Celestial Sphere, or the Secret Meridian
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1767, February. The sailing ship "Dei Gloria", belonging to the Jesuit order, dies off the coast of Spain after a battle with pirates. Yunga - the only one who was saved - mysteriously disappears, not having time to tell about what happened. All that he managed to report - the coordinates of the place of the tragedy ... Spain, present day. The navigator Manuel Coy, temporarily deprived of the right to engage in ship activities for the fact that landed the ship on the shoal, gets acquainted at an auction with a girl who bought for a lot of money an ancient sea map. Tangier Soto, an employee of a museum in Madrid, is maniacally obsessed with the idea of finding a lost ship, going, as she believes, with a cargo of extreme importance. She takes Manuel Coy as her assistant as an experienced navigator. The girl is well aware that she crossed the road powerful and dangerous forces that can go to any lengths, just to eliminate the rival - but it does not stop her ... Arturo Perez-Reverte - a former military journalist, the celebrated author of brilliant historical, military, adventure novels, translated into forty languages, the creator of the cycle of Captain Diego Alatrista, the owner of the most prestigious literary awards. His bestseller "Map of the Celestial Sphere, or Secret Meridian" - an intellectual thriller in the best traditions of "Club Dumas" and "Flemish board". Here hover the ghosts of all the seafarers of the world. Here Perez-Reverte, himself an experienced sailor, pays tribute to Robert Lewis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad, Herman Melville, Patrick O'Brian. Here, maritime adventure is inseparable from history, literature, and love.
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