‘It’s Joseph Conrad meets Elmore Leonard.’—Vancouver Sun
A spellbinding tale of the sea: love, murder, and mysticism: At the turn of the century, a Kwakiutl warrior from British Columbia’s wild northern islands raids an artifact collector’s yacht to reclaim stolen sacred masks. He takes the collector’s wife, Kate, as hostage on his 200-mile canoe voyage home. The collector hires Dugger, a coastal trader living on the edges of the law, to give chase in his ketch with the collector as passenger, but Dugger’s financial salvation comes at a terrible price, for he is Kate’s secret lover. Day and night Dugger sails the uncharted islands, through raging currents and ship-swallowing whirlpools, and the account of his pursuit is interwoven with Kate’s harrowing and erotically charged journey.Based on a true story, this novel reaches its thrilling climax at the last secret, hallucinatory potlatch of the ancient Kwakiutl culture, where the history of a doomed people is melded with the fury of three hearts.
关于作者
FERENC MATE was born in Hungary, escaped at the age of eleven, and has lived in Budapest, Vienna, Vancouver, Laguna Beach, New York, Paris and Rome. He is the author of 15 books translated into 14 languages, including New York Times Notable Book A Vineyard in Tuscany and the Dugger/Nello historical sea adventure fiction series. He lives with his family tending their vines and olives in the hills of Tuscany.
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语言 英语 ● 格式 EPUB ● 网页 288 ● ISBN 9780920256718 ● 文件大小 0.9 MB ● 出版者 Albatross ● 国家 US ● 发布时间 2007 ● 下载 24 个月 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 7470273 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
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