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The traveler's tree / Bruno Bontempelli ; translated by Linda Coverdale.
LIBRA PQ2662.O6245 A7313 1994
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bontempelli, Bruno.
- Standardized Title:
- Arbre du voyageur. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- French--Travel--Caribbean Area--History--18th century--Fiction.
- French.
- French--Travel.
- Caribbean Area.
- History.
- France--History, Naval--18th century--Fiction.
- France.
- Naval history.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 250 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Press, 1994.
- Summary:
- Somewhere in the Caribbean Sea the French ship Entremetteuse lies stranded without a breeze, its crew racked by starvation and disease, its wood rotting, and its masts limp. An island and the dim outline of the fabled traveler's tree appear on the horizon. Although only a gunshot away, the island's sheer cliffs and coral reefs make it cruelly unreachable. The heat grows unbearable, the ship's stores are nearly depleted, and the rats eagerly await the remains. As listless as the ship and increasingly feeble with scurvy, the embattled crew dispatches one longboat after another against raging waves, barrier reefs, and poisonous fish in order to reach the island, but to no avail. As mutiny, rebellion, and utter starvation loom, they pin their last hopes on a direct charge of the ship across the reefs, in one last valiant effort to reach the traveler's tree...
- ISBN:
- 1565841506 :
- OCLC:
- 30154993
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