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Scales of gold / Dorothy Dunnett.
LIBRA - Special PR6054.U56 S33 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dunnett, Dorothy.
- Series:
- Dunnett, Dorothy. House of Niccolò (Vintage Books) ; 4th bk.
- House of Niccolò ; fourth book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vander Poele, Nicholas (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
- Vander Poele, Nicholas (Fictitious character).
- Fifteenth century.
- History.
- Africa, Northwest--History--15th century--Fiction.
- Africa, Northwest.
- Europe--History--15th century--Fiction.
- Europe.
- Fifteenth century--Fiction.
- Tombouctou (Mali)--Fiction.
- Tombouctou (Mali).
- Adventure stories.
- Northwest Africa.
- Merchants--Fiction.
- Merchants.
- Mali--Tombouctou.
- Genre:
- Adventure stories.
- Fiction.
- History.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 519 pages : maps, genealogical table ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- First Vintage Books edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage, 1999.
- Summary:
- Eager to expand his commercial empire, ambitious merchant banker Nicholas van der Poele travels to Africa, followed by Gelis van Borselen, a determined young woman who blames Nicholas for her sister's death.
- Notes:
- Originally published: London : M. Joseph, 1991.
- "The introduction was originally published in slightly different form in the United States edition of The unicorn hunt published in 1994 by Alfred A. Knopf"--T.p. verso.
- ISBN:
- 0375704809
- 9780375704802
- OCLC:
- 41596880
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