Spine ends & corners of book cover have extremely light bumping & rubbing. Blue paper covered boards have a blue cloth spine with gilt lettering. Text pages are clean & bright. Endpapers are a solid white color. Spine ends & corners of dust jacket have a bit of very light bumping & rubbing. Overall, a nice bright copy. "After a violent storm in the South Pacific (the year is 1643), Roberto della Griva finds himself shipwrecked - on a ship. Swept from the Amaryllis, he has managed to pull himself aboard the Daphne, anchored in the bay of a beautiful Island. The ship is fully provisioned, he discovers, but the crew is missing."

General Fiction Historical Fiction Umberto Eco Literary Fiction Ships & Sailing Shipwrecks South pacific The South Pacific Modern Fiction Firsts