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Author: James Bradley
Nominated for Australia's Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best First Book. David Norfolk, an archaeologist searching for a sixteenth-century Portuguese ship, long rumored to be buried beneath sand dunes of southern Australia, unearths instead the body of a man apparently murdered fifty years ago. Nearing the end of his funding and absolutely ...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9781742144580
ISBN-10: 1742144586
Publication Date: 7/30/2009
Edition: Unabridged
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Publisher: Bolinda Publishing
Book Type: Audio CD
Other Versions: Paperback, Hardcover
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Interesting Book!! A good blend of Recent and age of exploration history. Fiction based on facts.
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This debut novel won two Australian literary awards. The plot twists around a murder mystery, romance, history and myth. An archaeologist searching sand dunes for an ancient Portuguese ship discovers the body of a soldier from the 1940's. A local hermit, near death, seems to know more than he's willing to tell about the identify of the dead soldier and the ship's whereabouts. David, and his ex-girlfriend move in to the hermit's shack to care for the dying man with the hope he will share some valuable information about the missing, ancient ship. 16th century Spanish-Portuguese history, mapmaking, a war-time romance turned mystery, and archaeology makes this a somewhat complex story.