false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166395683m/11030.jpg 11030 31 A treasure hunt for a Jesuit ship sunk by pirates off the coast of Spain is the plot on which Perez-Reverte's new novel turns, but a love story is the real heart of this nicely crafted, carefully told adventure. A suspended sailor happens on a maritime auction in Barcelona, where he meets the beautiful Tanger Soto, a museum curator whose winning bid buys her a 17th-century atlas that may reveal the final resting place of the <I>Dei Gloria</I>. Coy, the sailor, is totally smitten, so it's no surprise that he signs on to help Tanger track the sunken ship to its grave in waters he's sailed since childhood. Enlisting the aid of a diver friend, Coy and Tanger stay a few steps ahead of the crooked salvagers who've been trying to get the atlas, outmaneuvering the attempts on their lives and the efforts to keep them from the treasure. Perez-Reverte (<I>The Fencing Master</I>, <I>The Club Dumas</I>) is better at plumbing the mysteries of the human heart than those of the sea, but <I>The Nautical Chart</I> manages to combine history, suspense, and obsessive love in a slow-paced but ultimately engrossing read. <I>--Jane Adams</I> 2302998 1985 The Nautical Chart total:552|5:83|4:164|3:205|2:71|1:29| 552 1857 766 52 3 2 false false Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Fri Jan 02 07:16:37 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 02 07:27:50 -0800 2009
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Nothing happened. A woman is looking for a shipwreck. She recruits a man to help her. ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Nov 23 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 16 20:44:19 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 23 16:38:09 -0800 2009 The Shadow of the Wind - so much so that I was startled when I recalled that oops, that was a different Spanish author - and in Tanger Soto, the strong and mysterious Ur-woman, it reminded me of The Queen of the South...more...]]> 4 0 true false Sat Jan 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 15:22:06 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 06 15:32:46 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Apr 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 26 01:45:37 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 14 05:33:17 -0700 2009 So begins this historical thr...more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Dec 31 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 17:23:12 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 21 17:20:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 07 14:29:57 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 07 14:31:08 -0700 2008
Il s’agit plus d’une aventure intérieure pour les personnages que d’un vrai roman d’a...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Mar 27 17:14:45 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 10 14:41:15 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 27 17:13:39 -0700 2008 The descriptions in The Nautic...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Dec 04 12:47:46 -0800 2007 Tue Dec 04 12:49:01 -0800 2007 more...]]> 2 0 false true Sun Apr 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 07 13:11:05 -0700 2007 Sun Apr 26 17:57:15 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Jun 14 07:58:04 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 16 14:18:49 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Aug 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 08:36:36 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 14:27:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Apr 14 17:28:54 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 14 17:31:01 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Thu Aug 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 06:50:31 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 06:51:51 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sun Oct 25 18:31:56 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 18:33:07 -0700 2009 It took me 5 tries to get through this book. A book about sunken treasure should be more interesting than this. Definitely the worst of all of the Perez-Reverte books. Disappointing.]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Apr 18 08:37:10 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 18 08:38:47 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sat Jan 05 07:42:17 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 05 07:42:38 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jul 30 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Mon Apr 13 14:13:07 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 14:14:24 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Sun Feb 22 13:17:26 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 13:20:06 -0800 2009 4 0 true false Wed Jan 07 02:41:52 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 02:42:16 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=11030