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The collector of lost things : a novel / Jeremy Page.
Van Pelt Library PR6116.A35 C65 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Page, Jeremy, 1969- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Naturalists--Fiction.
- Naturalists.
- Great auk.
- Scientific expeditions.
- Scientific expeditions--19th century--Fiction.
- Great auk--Fiction.
- Arctic regions--Fiction.
- Arctic regions.
- Arctic Regions.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Adventure fiction.
- Sea stories.
- Historical fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 373 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Pegasus Books, 2013.
- Summary:
- In 1845, young researcher Eliot Saxby is paid to go on an Arctic expedition to find the remains of the by-now-extinct great auk, a large, flightless bird of mythical status, and is trapped on a hunting ship where the crew and passengers are not what they seem.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Roberta S. & Leonard S. Leibman, W'53 Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781605984858 :
- 160598485X :
- OCLC:
- 862747194
- Publisher Number:
- 99955583666
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