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Galapagos

by Kurt Vonnegut

Observed over one million years by the ghost of a Vietnam War veteran, this speculative novel traces the evolutionary journey of a small group of shipwrecked humans stranded on the Galapagos Islands.

Accession 10259 ISBN 0385294166 Publisher Delacorte Press, Seymour Lawrence
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