Publication

1994 - Nan A. Talese, New York, N.Y, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

71,000 words, Guess

Page Count

284 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing19375
  • Goodreads1394807

Classifications

  • DDC823/.914
  • LCCPR6063.C85 D43 1994

Description

This is the story of six characters sailing a yacht from Tahiti to New Zealand. Three of them are Scottish, and as they sail from island to island, each colonised in its different way, the small northern country that has formed them exerts its own magnetic pull.

Description

A journey by yacht on the Pacific by six people. They are Logan, the captain and restless heir to a Glasgow fortune; Elspeth, his troubled second wife; Alec, a painter from Edinburgh who has decided to change his life by moving to New Zealand; Gabriel a pretty cook with whom Logan sleeps; and mariners Nick and Sandro. A study in characters by the author of A Case of Knives.

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