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Near fine in Near fine jacket. Near fine condition. Little, Brown, 2003. First UK edition-first printing. Green hardback(gilt lettering to the spine, small nick and crease on the edges of the cover and spine) with Dj(small nicks and crease on the edges of the Dj cover), both in near fine condition. Illustrated inside the front and back cover with a colour map. Nice and clean pages as new with a ink mark and light shelf wear on the outer edges, a couple of small nicks on the edges of the pages. Nice and clean book as new with light shelf wear.376pp. Price un-clipped. A collectable first edition. This is another paragraph From Publishers Weekly: Restrained passion and conflicted loyalties drive this sweeping debut novel, in which two women of different eras experience the mysteries of Easter Island. In 1912, Elsa Pendleton's father dies and leaves her to care for her 19-year-old sister, Alice, who is beautiful but not quite right in the head. To secure their position, 22-year-old Elsa marries Edward Beazley, a contemporary of her father's who is an anthropologist with the Royal Geographical Society in England. They travel to Easter Island, where Edward plans to study the giant moai sculptures, and Elsa finds herself immersed in a new and harsh culture. As she contends with revelations concerning her husband and her sister, she befriends the native islanders and becomes engrossed in unlocking the meaning of the symbols she finds on wooden tablets. In a parallel narrative, Greer Farraday, a young American botanist recovering from a disastrous marriage to an older professor, arrives on the island in 1973 to uncover the mystery of the island's lack of native trees. One of Greer's fellow island researchers is Vicente Portales, a cryptographer attempting to interpret the rongorongo tablets and breech Greer's defenses. As Elsa and Greer's stories play out in alternating sections, a third element is intertwined: the tale of Graf Von Spee, the German admiral who led his ill-fated fleet across the South Pacific at the outbreak of World War I. Vanderbes knows how to craft suspense, and the narratives-while packed with vivid historical and scientific detail-move forward on the strength of her fully realized characters. When the connection between Elsa and Greer is revealed, it illuminates the novel.
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Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover. Ripped/damaged jacket. The dust jacket of this book is slightly damaged/ripped, however, this does not affect the internal condition. Grubby book may have mild dirt or some staining, mostly on the edges of pages.
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Good. All orders are dispatched within 1 working day from our UK warehouse. Established in 2004, we are dedicated to recycling unwanted books on behalf of a number of UK charities who benefit from added revenue through the sale of their books plus huge savings in waste disposal. No quibble refund if not completely satisfied.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-7¾"-9¾" Tall. Jacket and boards have only light wear. Pages are clean and lightly tanning in margins, text has no markings, binding is sound.
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Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket. 0316861979. Signed and inscribed by author on title page. Very light bumping to spine extremities and bottom corner of rear board. Some spine lean. Else binding clean. Bit of very light smudging on page tops and fore-edges. Else pages clean. DJ clean.; GFHA17; 9.25 x 6.25"; 308 pages; Signed by Author.