The Island of the Day Before [FIRST U.S. EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Eco, Umberto

Published by Harcourt Brace & Company, New York, 1995

About this Item

As new condition navy blue boards/blue cloth spine/gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Translator's Postscript. Translated from the Italian by William Weaver. First U.S. edition, first printing. "A romance of navigation and science in the mid-seventeenth century, by the author of The Name of the Rose. After a violent storm in the Sounth Pacific (the year is 1643), Roberto della Griva finds himself shipwrecked - on a ship. Swept from the Amaryllis, he has managed to pull himself aboard the Daphne, anchored in the bay of a beautiful island. The ship is fully provisioned, he discovers, but the crew is missing. As Roberto explores the different cabinets in the hold, he remembers chapters from his youth: Ferrante, his imaginary evil brother; the siege of Casale, that meaningless chess move in the Thirty Years' War in which he lost his father and his illustions; the Aristotelian metaphor-machine of Padre Emanuele; the lessons given him on Reasons of State, fencing, the writing of love letters, and blasphemy; the salons of paris, the theory of the Powder of Sympathy, the approach of his unapproachable Lady, then prison, and finally the summons of Cardianl Mazarin himself. In this fascinating, lyrical tale, Umberto Exo tells of an international race to establish the Punto Fijo; of a young dreamer searching for love and meaning; and of a most amizing old Jesuit who, with his clocks and maps, has plumbed the secrets of longitudes, the four moons of Jupiter, and the Flood." - from the inner front jacket flap.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Island of the Day Before [FIRST U.S. EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]
• Publisher: Harcourt Brace & Company, New York
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New