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Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
©2017.
Physical Desc
337 pages : illustrations, maps, color illustrations on endpapers ; 25 cm
Description
A tale of magical landscapes and impossible quests in 19th-century Peru follows the experiences of a disabled former East India Company smuggler who reluctantly accepts a treacherous mission to fetch quinine from a tiny mission colony on the edge of the Amazon.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 25 cm
Description
In 1963, in a Siberian prison, former nuclear specialist Valery Kolkhanov has mastered what it takes to survive: the right connections to the guards for access to food and cigarettes, the right pair of warm boots, and the right attitude toward the small pleasures of life so he won't go insane. But one day, all that changes: Valery's university mentor steps in and sweeps him from the frozen camp to a mysterious unnamed city. It houses a set of nuclear...
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