Type of bind: Audio Cassette
EAN num: 9781402505379
Format: Unabridged
ISBN number: 140250537X
Label: Recorded Books
Manufacturer: Recorded Books
Quantity: 9
Printing Date: 2001-10
Publishing house: Recorded Books
Sale Popularity Level: 4012494
Studio: Recorded Books
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Coy is a suspended sailour with time on his hands, a mariner without a ship. While attending a maritime auction in Barcelona, he meets a beautiful woman who immediately captures his imagination. Tánger Soto, who works for the Naval Museum in Madrid, is obsessed with the Dei Gloria, a Jesuit ship sunk by pirates in the seventeenth century, and now-she hopes-resting on the bottom of the sea off the southern coast of Spain. Tánger uses her considerable manipulative skills with men and her expertise with documents, atlases, and nautical maps to chart the search for lost treasure. Coy is quickly drawn into the search, and before long finds himself falling in love. Along with El Piloto, the world-wise old man of the sea whose sailboat will carry this adventurous crew, they seek their fortune together. Or do they?
As these lively characters follow the course of past sailors, their own journey becomes perilous. Are there secrets dwelling in the depths of the sea? And what of the depths of the heart? This highly intelligent and meticulously plotted novel combines the richness of atmosphere we have come to expect from Pérez-Reverte with the romance and mystery of the sea found in the novels of Melville, Conrad, and O'Brian. An unforgettable adventure.
'The master of the intellectual thriller.'--San Francisco Chronicle
Amazon.com Review:
A treasure hunt for a Jesuit ship sunk by pirates off the coast of Spain is the plot on which Perez-Reverte's new novel turns, but a love story is the real heart of this nicely crafted, carefully told adventure. A suspended sailour happens on a maritime auction in Barcelona, where he meets the beautiful Tanger Soto, a museum curator whose winning bid buys her a 17th-century atlas that may reveal the final resting place of the Dei Gloria. Coy, the sailor, is totally smitten, so it's no surprise that he signs on to help Tanger track the sunken ship to its grave in waters he's sailed since childhood. Enlisting the aid of a diver friend, Coy and Tanger stay a few steps ahead of the crooked salvagers who've been trying to get the atlas, outmaneuvering the attempts on their lives and the efforts to keep them from the treasure. Perez-Reverte (The Fencing Master, The Club Dumas) is better at plumbing the mysteries of the human heart than those of the sea, but The Nautical Chart manages to combine history, suspense, and obsessive love in a slow-paced but ultimately engrossing read. --Jane Adams
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I've read all of Perez-Reverte's works and believe that--as a mystery--this one falls a bit short. The protagonist, however, is one of his most interesting and thoroughly developed characters, a sailour who instills this "roman noir" with great depths of poetry and heart.
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Forget the sunken ship, the treasure, the literary allusions, and all the rest. What is left is the description of an intense obsession and fierce longing for the unobtainable. And it is beautifully written. If you have ever fallen for someone so hard you built a pedestal that kept him or her just out of your grasp, this brilliant novel will bring those memories home in a wonderful way. I cannot say enough about this powerful, evocative novel. Far and away Perez-Reverte's best writing (certainly the translator must take some of the credit for this as well). Don't worry about the well-worn story and cliché; read this novel to bask in the glow of the pursuit of the unattainable.
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one word:
garbage
but if that doesn't help here are a few more words:
this book is full of cheesy cliché, poor metaphor, and useless filler. not to mention technical jargon that does nothing for the storyline. i picked it up because i figured it had to be a best seller for a good reason. save your time and money. the surprise ending is not much of a surprise at all. the characters are flat and his endeavor at spicing them up are quite unsuccessful. i'm really shocked that this author has achieved such a level of commercial success.
if you want to read a good mystery that takes place on the high seas i recommend "Star of the Sea" by Joseph O'Connor.
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Since others have covered the plot, I will concentrate on characters. They are all absolutely great and memorable. One even simphatizes with the villain. At the end of this thoroughly believable tale, I was left out of breath.Kingmaker
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i bought this book because this author wrote one of my favorites - The Queen of the South. that book is one i would call excellent. so i bought three others from him, and they were all less than mediocre. i never even finished them. that includes The Nautical Chart. It's cover is better than the contents. i actually read half of it, waiting to get interested, and never was.
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