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Explorers of the New Century
Magnus Mills
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9780156030786 Trade Paperback
0156030780
$14.00
192pages
Available
Trim Size:
5-5/16 x 8
Copyright Year:
2006
Territory:
US, O
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Synopsis |
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When Magnus Mills gives the world a shake, you never know what might fall out of his pockets," proclaims the Los Angeles Times. In his terse new tour de force of a tale, Mills gives history a shake, and you'll never guess what the fallout is. Set at the dawn of the great age of exploration, the era of Shackleton and Perry and Scott, the book presents the adventures of two intrepid teams, both vying to reach the AFP, or Agreed Furthest Point-a worthy, even ennobling cause. The competition is friendly but conditions are extreme. To get through the arid, lifeless landscape, both teams must learn to make sacrifices, sacrifices that will change just about everything.
Mills burst on the literary scene a decade ago with The Restraint of Beasts, a novel Thomas Pynchon called a "demented, deadpan-comic wonder." This new work proves that he has become a master storyteller whose books are each "as welcome as a warm bus on a rainy day" (The Oregonian).
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Biography |
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MAGNUS MILLS worked as a full-time bus driver in London until the success of The Restraint of Beasts, which was short-listed for the Booker Prize. The author of a collection of short stories and five novels, all of which have been published in fifteen languages, he lives in London.
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General Subjects |
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Fiction- Action & Adventure
Fiction- Men's Adventure
Fiction- General
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Rights Details |
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Serial/Audio: Melanie Jackson Agency
UK: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
Performance/Translation: Rogers, Coleridge and White Ltd.
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Rights Information |
Harvest Books
An imprint ofHarcourt Trade Publishers
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Harcourt Education Company
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