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Easter Island / Jennifer Vanderbes.

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Van Pelt Library PS3622.A59 E27 2003
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Vanderbes, Jennifer.
Contributor:
Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)
Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Women--Easter Island--Fiction.
Women.
British--Easter Island--Fiction.
British.
Americans--Easter Island--Fiction.
Americans.
Anthropologists' spouses--Fiction.
Anthropologists' spouses.
Women botanists--Fiction.
Women botanists.
Easter Island--Fiction.
Easter Island.
Genre:
Psychological fiction.
Historical fiction.
Fiction.
Penn Provenance:
Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)
Vanderbes, Jennifer (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)
Physical Description:
308 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
New York : Dial Press, [2003]
Summary:
It is 1913. Elsa Pendleton travels from England to Easter Island with her husband and her sister. What begins as familial duty becomes a grand adventure as she discovers her true calling. "Easter Island" is a tour-de-force of storytelling that will establish Vanderbes as a most gifted writer.
Notes:
Maps on lining papers.
Local Notes:
Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
Schimmel Collection copy inscried by the author to Caroline F. Schimmel on 12 June 2003 on title leaf.
Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
ISBN:
038533673X
OCLC:
50561763

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