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The coral thief : a novel / Rebecca Stott.
- Title
- The coral thief : a novel / Rebecca Stott.
- Author
- Stott, Rebecca.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PR6119.T69 C67 2009 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 286 p. : ill., map; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "Napoleon has just surrendered at Waterloo and is on his way to the island of St. Helena to begin his exile. Meanwhile, Daniel Connor, a young medical student from Edinburgh, has just arrived in Paris to study anatomy at the Jardin des Plantes - only to realize that his letters of introduction and a gift of precious coral specimens, on which his tenure with the legendary Dr. Cuvier depends, have been stolen by the beautiful woman with whom he shared a stagecoach." "In the fervor and tumult of postrevolutionary Paris, nothing is quite as it seems. In trying to recover his lost valuables, Daniel discovers that his beautiful adversary is in fact a philosopher-thief who lives in a shadowy world of outlaws and emigres. Daniel's fall into this underworld is also a flight, for as he falls in love with the mysterious coral thief and she draws him into an audacious plot that will leave him with a future very different from the one he has envisioned for himself, Daniel discovers a radical theory of evolution and mutability that irrevocably changes his conception of the world in which he lives."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- ISBN
- 038553146X (alk. paper)
- 9780385531467 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2009012846
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries