The Nautical Chart

by Perez-Reverte, Arturo; Peden, Margaret Sayers

• ISBN13: 9780151005345
• ISBN10: 0151005346
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-10-01
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Summary

Coy is a suspended sailor with time on his hands, a mariner without a ship. While attending a maritime auction in Barcelona, he meets a beautiful woman who immediately captures his imagination. Tnger Soto, who works for the Naval Museum in Madrid, is obsessed with the Dei Gloria, a Jesuit ship sunk by pirates in the seventeenth century, and now-she hopes-resting on the bottom of the sea off the southern coast of Spain. Tnger uses her considerable manipulative skills with men and her expertise with documents, atlases, and nautical maps to chart the search for lost treasure. Coy is quickly drawn into the search, and before long finds himself falling in love. Along with El Piloto, the world-wise old man of the sea whose sailboat will carry this adventurous crew, they seek their fortune together. Or do they?As these lively characters follow the course of past sailors, their own journey becomes perilous. Are there secrets dwelling in the depths of the sea? And what of the depths of the heart? This highly intelligent and meticulously plotted novel combines the richness of atmosphere we have come to expect from Prez-Reverte with the romance and mystery of the sea found in the novels of Melville, Conrad, and O'Brian. An unforgettable adventure."The master of the intellectual thriller."--San Francisco Chronicle

Author Biography

Arturo PTrez-Reverte is the internationally acclaimed author of The Fencing Master, The Seville Communion, and The Flanders Panel. Translated into nineteen languages in thirty countries, his books have sold more than three million copies worldwide. He is a well-known newspaper columnist and worked as a television journalist before becoming one of the world's most widely read and best-loved writers. He was born in 1951 in Spain where he still makes his home.

Table of Contents

Lot 307	3	(30)
The Trafalgar Showcase	33	(23)
The Lost Ship	56	(28)
Latitude and Longitude	84	(35)
Zero Meridian	119	(31)
Of Knights and Knaves	150	(29)
Ahab's Doubloon	179	(25)
The Reckoning Point	204	(32)
Forecastle Women	236	(28)
The Coast of the Corsairs	264	(29)
The Sargasso Sea	293	(33)
Southwest Quarter to South	326	(32)
The Master Cartographer	358	(31)
The Mystery of the Green Lobsters	389	(26)
The Devil's Irises	415	(23)
The Graveyard of Ships With No Name	438