The Island of the Day Before – Umberto Eco

Condition : Good.

Minerva, Medium-format Paperback, 1996 – Fiction – 513pp. ISBN 9780749396664.

A panoramic historical novel set in the seventeenth century follows a young aristocrat who goes to sea to find love and an old Jesuit with boundless scientific knowledge. In this “intellectually stimulating and dramatically intriguing” novel, Umberto Eco conjures a young dreamer searching for love and meaning; and an old Jesuit who, with his clocks and maps, has plumbed the secrets of longitudes, the four moons of Jupiter, and the Flood (Chicago Tribune).

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