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Seller: Hadwebutknown, Birnam, Perth, United KingdomHadwebutknown
AbeBooks seller since April 15, 2019
Condition: Used
US$ 34.34
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Ledgard writes from deep immersion in his well-imagined characters and setting, telling a strong central story involving a terrorist hostage-taking and a perilous deep-sea dive Fine in Fine dustjacket.
Seller Inventory # 3810
- Title
- Submergence
- Author
- LEDGARD, J.M.
- Publisher
- Cape
- Publication year
- 2011
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0224091379
- ISBN 13
- 9780224091374
- Edition
- First Edition.
In a room with no windows on the eastern coast of Africa, an Englishman, James More, is held captive by jihadist fighters. Posing as a water engineer to spy on al-Qaeda activity in the area, he now faces extreme privation, mock executions and forced marches through arid Somali badlands. Thousands of miles away on the Greenland Sea, Danielle Flinders, a biomathematician, prepares for a dive to the ocean floor to determine the extent and forms of life in the deep.
Both are drawn back, in their thoughts, to the Christmas of the previous year, and to a French hotel on the Atlantic coast, where a chance encounter on the beach led to an intense and enduring romance, now stretching across continents. For James, a descendant of Thomas More, his mind escapes to utopias, and fragments of his life and learning before his incarceration, now haunting him. Danny is drawn back to mythical and scientific origins and to the ocean: immense and otherworldly, a comfort and a threat.
Submergence is a love story, a meditation on mortality, and a vivid portrayal of man's place on Earth. With it J. M. Ledgard proves himself a writer of large horizons and vast ambition.
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Hadwebutknown
Birnam, Perth, United Kingdom
AbeBooks seller since April 15, 2019
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Had We But Known… has a stock of around 7000 books with two main specialisms of Mystery novels from the ‘Golden Age of Detection’ (or GAD as it is sometimes called) and History, particularly Scottish and Medieval History. We also have a large selection of Scottish literature. In addition to these we have good smaller collections of Science Fiction, pulp paperbacks, Chess and European Literature in translation. We issue occasional catalogue of Golden Age Mysteries and Scottish Literature and History…
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100 High Street
Whitstable, United Kingdom CT5 1AZ
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Condition
All books are first UK hardback editions unless stated. Dustjackets where noted. If a dustjacket is price-clipped or there is an ownership inscription I will endeavour to list it.
I use standard booksellers terms. These are fairly subjective and age has to be taken into
account to a certain extent. Any problems please do tell me, and I can describe in more detail
any items you are interested in. I am happy to provide further photos on request, within reason
FINE: Without faults or defects.
NEAR FINE: a book approaching FINE but with minor defects or faults,
VERY GOOD: A book showing some signs of wear. ...
GOOD: The average used book that is totally complete (as issued) and intact.
FAIR - not Good
POOR/ READING COPY - not even not Good
I will always note when a copy is ex library.
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