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The book A History of the World in Ten and a Half Chapters begins with the story of an unlikely stowaway about life aboard Noah's Ark, presenting surprising, subversive, and fictional histories of the Earth told from several diverse perspectives reminiscent of a kaleidoscope. Noah steps out of his ark, but he and his voyage are not forgotten: they return in other centuries and climates – a Victorian old maid mourning her father, an American astronaut with an obsessive personal mission. We embark on the Titanic, into the Amazon, on the raft of the Medusa, and to a church trial in medieval France, where a rather bizarre case unfolds...
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Author: Barnes Julian
Publication date: November 21, 2022
Manufacturer: Euromedia Group, a.s.
Genres: Novels, World fiction, Books, Fiction
Type: Hardcover books
Pages: 368
ISBN/EAN: 9788020721372