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- naslov
Plough the Sea
- autor
Robert Wilder
- šifra
- B-28077
- izdanje
- n/a
- jezik
- engleski
- pismo
- latinica
- biblioteka
- Book Club Edition
- izdavač
- G.P. Putnam's Sons New York.
- štamparija
- Printed in the U.S.A.
- godina
- 1961.
- opis
- tvrd povez, plastif korice, sa ilustr omotom (jacket design by John Allan Maxwell), 343 strane, 21.5cm
- stanje
- odlično
- cena
- n/a
- knjiga status
- prodato
- širi opis
The Caribbean... Here, in an area of deceptive beauty, men have long contested for power and wealth and for the bodies and minds of those they subjugated. For centuries pirates, slavers and adventurers have ravaged it. Revolution has stained the white beaches crimson. It has been pillaged by black and white alike and torn by the conflict of color and prejudice, greed and ambition.
In PLOUGH THE SEA, a novel as emotionally explosive as its setting, Robert Wilder has caught the magic of these islands which lie along The Windward Passage and stretch northeastward to the Bahama Banks. As timely as tomorrow's headlines, as charged with violence and danger, PLOUGH THE SEA is the story of Jorge Ojeda and Ferris Dessaline; the one created in the image of the pirates who sailed the Spanish Main; the other a girl reared in a tradition in which wealth, position and social prejudices are not only taken for granted but form an indisputable way of life...
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