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La Carta Esferica / The Nautical Chart (Spanish edition) (original 2000; edition 2001)

by Arturo Perez-Reverte

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Un marino sin barco, desterrado del mar, conoce a una extraña mujer que posee, tal vez sin saberlo, respuestas a preguntas que ciertos hombres se hacen desde siglos. Cazadores de naufragios en busca del fantasma de un barco perdido en el Mediterráneo, problemas de latitud y longitud cuyo secreto yace oculto en antiguos derroteros y cartas náuticas, museos navales, bibliotecas... Nunca el mar y la Historia, la ciencia de la navegación, la aventura y el misterio se habían combinado de un modo tan extraordinario en una novela, como en La carta esférica. De Melville a Stevenson y Conrad, de Homero a Patrick O'Brian, toda la gran literatura escrita sobre el mar late en las páginas de esta historia fascinante e inolvidable. La novela fue llevada al cine por Imanol Uribe y protagonizada por Carmelo Gómez y Aitana Sánchez Gijón. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A fearless Spanish crew embarks on a search for a lost ship, swallowed by the Indian Ocean centuries ago, in a novel by "a master of the literary thriller" (Booklist, starred review).   Manuel Coy is a suspended sailor with time on his hands, a mariner without a ship. While attending a maritime auction in Barcelona, he meets Tánger Soto, a captivating beauty who works for the Naval Museum in Madrid. A woman obsessed with the Dei Gloria, a famed Jesuit ship sunk by pirates in the seventeenth century, she now hopes to find it and unearth its mysteries, rumored to be buried the bottom of the sea off the southern coast of Spain.   Quickly drawn into the search, Coy accompanies Tánger Soto, and a wise old man of the sea whose sailboat will carry the crew into the middle of nowhere in search of a fortune. But more than treasure is rising to the surface--secrets are, too. And from these depths will also come danger, and an adventure no one is prepared for.   From the acclaimed author of The Queen of the South, The Nautical Chart is "a swashbuckling tale of mystery" (The Washington Post Book World).… (more)
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Title:La Carta Esferica / The Nautical Chart (Spanish edition)
Authors:Arturo Perez-Reverte
Info:Alfaguara (2001), Paperback, 590 pages
Collections:Your library
Rating:***1/2
Tags:fiction, history, sailing

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The Nautical Chart by Arturo Pérez-Reverte (2000)

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I do not know even after all these pages whether the translation sucks or the whole thing misses the mark ?

it feels like when you go to an elaborate dinner served by a drunk foodie couple whose overambitious menu features dishes with expensive and exotic ingredients that they just can't quite pull off while inebriated and interacting with their guests. Stuff comes to the table late, under or over-cooked. The dialogue is banal, and what should tickle the senses falls flat.

if you put a post-it over the author's name you might think Dan Brown and Clive Cussler's manuscripts got misfed in adjacent Xerox machines that spat out the pages and the people who came upon the papers scattered about published the stuff they picked up off the floor and shuffled back together. ( )
  nkmunn | Nov 17, 2018 |
Helped pass a dull daytime flight. Read a bit like a sub-Bond movie at times. Unreconstructed misogynist as anti-hero grated at times. ( )
  celerydog | Nov 3, 2017 |
ahi pérez, se anche tu ci abbandoni come faremo a tirare avanti. Il marinaio, l'amico generoso, la donna fatale...che palle!
  icaro. | Aug 31, 2017 |
This is billed as an adventure but the action of the adventure starts towards the end. The writing is deeply descriptive in developing the absorbing characters and their situations. I know I would have enjoyed it more than I did if I had read it not needing action-adventure at the time. ( )
  BridgitDavis | Feb 28, 2017 |
The seafarin' adventure and noir combine in this tale of a melancholy sailor, an enigmatic blonde, a 200-year-old shipwreck, and a passel of bad guys who also want to find the ship. ( )
  Mrs_McGreevy | Nov 17, 2016 |
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Une carte marine est bien plus qu'un instrument indispensable pour aller d'un point à un autre ; c'est une gravure, une page d'histoire, parfois un roman d'aventures.
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We could call him Ishmael, but in truth his name is Coy.
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Un marino sin barco, desterrado del mar, conoce a una extraña mujer que posee, tal vez sin saberlo, respuestas a preguntas que ciertos hombres se hacen desde siglos. Cazadores de naufragios en busca del fantasma de un barco perdido en el Mediterráneo, problemas de latitud y longitud cuyo secreto yace oculto en antiguos derroteros y cartas náuticas, museos navales, bibliotecas... Nunca el mar y la Historia, la ciencia de la navegación, la aventura y el misterio se habían combinado de un modo tan extraordinario en una novela, como en La carta esférica. De Melville a Stevenson y Conrad, de Homero a Patrick O'Brian, toda la gran literatura escrita sobre el mar late en las páginas de esta historia fascinante e inolvidable. La novela fue llevada al cine por Imanol Uribe y protagonizada por Carmelo Gómez y Aitana Sánchez Gijón. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A fearless Spanish crew embarks on a search for a lost ship, swallowed by the Indian Ocean centuries ago, in a novel by "a master of the literary thriller" (Booklist, starred review).   Manuel Coy is a suspended sailor with time on his hands, a mariner without a ship. While attending a maritime auction in Barcelona, he meets Tánger Soto, a captivating beauty who works for the Naval Museum in Madrid. A woman obsessed with the Dei Gloria, a famed Jesuit ship sunk by pirates in the seventeenth century, she now hopes to find it and unearth its mysteries, rumored to be buried the bottom of the sea off the southern coast of Spain.   Quickly drawn into the search, Coy accompanies Tánger Soto, and a wise old man of the sea whose sailboat will carry the crew into the middle of nowhere in search of a fortune. But more than treasure is rising to the surface--secrets are, too. And from these depths will also come danger, and an adventure no one is prepared for.   From the acclaimed author of The Queen of the South, The Nautical Chart is "a swashbuckling tale of mystery" (The Washington Post Book World).

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