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Published by the Department of Romance Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Cover; THE WAR OF THE MICE AND THE CRABS; Title; Copyright; Dedication; TABLE OF CONTENTS; FOREWORD; TRANSLATOR'S INTRODUCTION; CANTO I; CANTO II; CANTO III; CANTO IV; CANTO V; CANTO VI; CANTO VII; CANTO VIII; A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY; Back Cover.
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Universitätsbibliothek der Eberhard Karls Universität
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Cover; THE WAR OF THE MICE AND THE CRABS; Title; Copyright; Dedication; TABLE OF CONTENTS; FOREWORD; TRANSLATOR'S INTRODUCTION; CANTO I; CANTO II; CANTO III; CANTO IV; CANTO V; CANTO VI; CANTO VII; CANTO VIII; A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY; Back Cover.
"In 1859, ex-East India Company smuggler Merrick Tremayne is trapped at home in Cornwall after sustaining an injury that almost cost him his leg. When the India Office recruits Merrick for an expedition to fetch quinine--essential for the treatment...
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"In 1859, ex-East India Company smuggler Merrick Tremayne is trapped at home in Cornwall after sustaining an injury that almost cost him his leg. When the India Office recruits Merrick for an expedition to fetch quinine--essential for the treatment of malaria--from deep within Peru, he knows it's a terrible idea. Nearly every able-bodied expeditionary who's made the attempt has died, and he can barely walk. But Merrick is desperate to escape the strange events plaguing his family's crumbling estate, so he sets off, against his better judgment, for the edge of the Amazon. There he meets Raphael, a priest around whom the villagers spin unsettling stories of impossible disappearances, cursed woods, and living stone. Merrick must separate truth from fairytale and gradually realizes that Raphael is the key to a legacy left by generations of Tremayne explorers before him ..."--Back cover
