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The island of the day before

by Umberto Eco, William Weaver

In 1643, a shipwrecked nobleman stranded on a deserted vessel in the South Seas reflects on his past amidst the Thirty Years' War. His letters examine the transition to modern science and the seventeenth-century race to discover the secret of longitude.

Accession 15838 ISBN 0436202700 Publisher Secker & Warburg
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