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Three weeks in December / Audrey Schulman.
Van Pelt Library PS3569.C5367 T47 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schulman, Audrey, 1963-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Railroad engineers--Fiction.
- Railroad engineers.
- Ethnobotanists--Fiction.
- Ethnobotanists.
- Animals--Africa--Fiction.
- Animals.
- Human ecology--Fiction.
- Human ecology.
- Africa.
- Africa--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 353 pages : maps ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Europa Editions, 2012.
- Summary:
- This novel interweaves the perspectives of Jeremy, an engineer who leaves small-town Maine in 1899 to oversee the construction of a railroad across East Africa, and finds himself the reluctant hunter of two lions killing his men in nightly attacks; and Max, an American ethnobotanist who travels to Rwanda in 2000 in search of an obscure vine that could become a lifesaving pharmaceutical, but finds herself shadowing a family of gorillas whose survival is threatened by a violent rebel group from nearby Congo.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [351]-353).
- ISBN:
- 9781609450649
- 1609450647
- OCLC:
- 744291864
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