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The Island of the Day Before
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Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
ISBN: 0140259198    
Release Date: 1996-11-01

List Price: USD 16.00     Paperback

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Book description:

In 1643 a castaway comes upon an abandoned ship anchored off a desert island. As he explores the vessel’s mysterious cargo, he revisits the events of his tempestuous youth-and limns his era’s obsession with science and navigation. Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

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