Bright and distant shores : a novel / Dominic Smith.

Author/Creator:

Smith, Dominic.

Edition:

1st Washington Square Press trade pbk. ed.

Publication:

New York : Washington Square Press, 2011.

Format/Description:

Book
470 p. : map ; 21 cm.

Subjects:

Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction.
South Pacific Ocean -- Fiction.
Oceania -- Fiction.

Form/Genre:

Historical fiction.

Summary:

Chicago, 1897. An obsessive collector and insurance magnate commissions the world's tallest building. Determined to compete with Marshall Field's recent donation of $1 million to found the Field Museum, the tycoon funds a private collecting voyage into the Pacific.

ISBN:

9781439198865 (trade pbk.)
1439198861 (trade pbk.)
9781439198889 (ebook)
1439198888 (ebook)

OCLC:

687667677

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