The high mountains of Portugal / Yann Martel.
By: Martel, Yann [author.].
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TextPublisher: Waterville, Maine : Wheeler Publishing A part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2016Edition: Large print edition.Description: 451 pages ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781782114758.Subject(s): Antiquities -- Fiction | Quests (Expeditions) -- Fiction | Allegories | Portugal -- FictionDDC classification: FIC MAR Summary: In Lisbon in 1904, a young man named Tom discovers an old journal. It hints at the existence of an extraordinary artifact that--if he can find it--would redefine history. Traveling in one of Europe's earliest automobiles, he sets out in search of this strange treasure. Thirty-five years later, a Portuguese pathologist devoted to the murder mysteries of Agatha Christie finds himself at the center of a mystery of his own and drawn into the consequences of ToḿŁđ's quest. Fifty years on, a Canadian senator takes refuge in his ancestral village in northern Portugal, grieving the loss of his beloved wife. He arrives with an unusual companion: a chimpanzee, and there the century-old quest will come to an unexpected conclusion.
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In Lisbon in 1904, a young man named Tom discovers an old journal. It hints at the existence of an extraordinary artifact that--if he can find it--would redefine history. Traveling in one of Europe's earliest automobiles, he sets out in search of this strange treasure. Thirty-five years later, a Portuguese pathologist devoted to the murder mysteries of Agatha Christie finds himself at the center of a mystery of his own and drawn into the consequences of ToḿŁđ's quest. Fifty years on, a Canadian senator takes refuge in his ancestral village in northern Portugal, grieving the loss of his beloved wife. He arrives with an unusual companion: a chimpanzee, and there the century-old quest will come to an unexpected conclusion.
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