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The Traveler's Tree An island and the dim outline of the fabled traveler’s tree appear on the horizon. A modern fable reminiscent of Camus’s classic The Plague, The Traveler’s Tree is at
| Title | : | The Traveler's Tree |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.91 (961 Votes) |
| Id Book | : | 1565841506 |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 1994-09-01 |
| Type File | : | PDF, DOC, RTF, ePub |
Bruno Bontempelli’s The Traveler’s Tree is a spellbinding and most unusual tale of desperation and suspense, which takes place in the eighteenth-century maritime setting Patrick O’Brian made so familiar to American readers. A modern fable reminiscent of Camus’s classic The Plague, The Traveler’s Tree is at its core an exploration of man’s nature.Somewhere in the Caribbean Sea the French ship Entremetteuse lies stranded without a breeze, its crew racked by starvation and disease, its wood rotting, and its masts limp. An island and the dim outline of the fabled traveler’s tree appear on the horizon. Although only a gunshot away, the island’s sheer cliffs and coral reefs make it cruelly unreachable. The heat grows unbearable, the ship’s stores are nearly depleted, and the rats eagerly await the remains.As listless as the ship and increasingly feeble with scurvy, the embattled crew dispatches one longboat aft
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