Author: SMITH, MARTIN CRUZ (1942- )
Title: Rose / Martin Cruz Smith
Description: New York : Random House 1996. First Trade Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine. very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw. now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight. bright. clean and strong.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 364 pages; Description: 364 p. : maps ; 24 cm. Subjects: Coal mines and mining --Fiction. Women coal miners --Fiction. Mining engineers --Fiction. Missing persons --Fiction. Lancashire (England) --Fiction. Form/Genre: Historical fiction. Summary: Rose is a wonderfully rich and intricate novel set in nineteenth-century Wigan. a town located in the coal country of Lancashire. Its protagonist. Jonathan Blair. is a mining engineer who has been chased out of Africa for 'stealing' from the missionaries' Bible Fund in order to pay off the porter of his expedition into the interior of the Gold Coast; he is now down and out in London.ISBN: 0679426612. Weight in Kg appr.:

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