The Nautical Chart - Softcover

Perez-Reverte, Arturo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156029820 ISBN 13: 9780156029827

Publisher: HarperVia, 2004

Synopsis

Coy is a sailor without a ship.Tánger Soto is a woman with an obsession to find the Dei Gloria, a ship sunk during the seventeenth century, and El Piloto is an old man with the sailboat on which all three set out to seek their fortune together. Or do they?

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Review:

A treasure hunt for a Jesuit ship sunk by pirates off the coast of Spain is the plot on which Perez-Reverte's new novel turns, but a love story is the real heart of this nicely crafted, carefully told adventure. A suspended sailor happens on a maritime auction in Barcelona, where he meets the beautiful Tanger Soto, a museum curator whose winning bid buys her a 17th-century atlas that may reveal the final resting place of the Dei Gloria. Coy, the sailor, is totally smitten, so it's no surprise that he signs on to help Tanger track the sunken ship to its grave in waters he's sailed since childhood. Enlisting the aid of a diver friend, Coy and Tanger stay a few steps ahead of the crooked salvagers who've been trying to get the atlas, outmaneuvering the attempts on their lives and the efforts to keep them from the treasure. Perez-Reverte (The Fencing Master, The Club Dumas) is better at plumbing the mysteries of the human heart than those of the sea, but The Nautical Chart manages to combine history, suspense, and obsessive love in a slow-paced but ultimately engrossing read. --Jane Adams

Book Description:

Published in hardcover by Harcourt, 2001, 0-15-100534-6
Published in paperback by Harcourt, 2002, 0-15-601305-3

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperVia
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0156029820
• ISBN 13: 9780156029827
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 480