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Ports of Call,Jack Vance
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Title
- Ports of Call
- ISBN
- 9780006482123
- EAN
- 9780006482123
- Publication Year
- 1999
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Ports of Call
- Item Height
- 178mm
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Topic
- Books
- Item Width
- 111mm
- Item Weight
- 160g
- Number of Pages
- 400 Pages
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New galaxy-hopping, picaresque adventure from a master storyteller. Sf grand master Vance's latest is a tongue-in-cheek swashbuckler about a young man, Myron Tany, who has taken a degree in space studies but has much to learn when he first boards a ship. Myron is in thrall to his zany aunt, who has heard of a faraway fountain of youth and sets off in her space yacht to find it. Her captain flatters her agreeably, and when Myron points out that the man is a swindler, she won't hear of it and maroons poor Myron on an inhospitable planet with barely his passage home. Luckily, the tramp cargo vessel Glicca is just then in need of a supercargo, and Myron signs on with cool, competent Captain Maloof, Chief Engineer/gambler Schwatzendale, and Chief Steward/photographer Wingo. The four enjoy a string of rare adventures on a spectacular series of planets. They acquire as passengers a group of pilgrims (and their mysterious luggage), or rather, pirates masquerading as religious pilgrims, and engage in to-the-death struggles with the pirates' pursuers; on Terce, Myron narrowly avoids being skinned (there is a flourishing trade in human skins) and eaten. Finally, they encounter a Swiftian, legalistic planet on which one may be punished or betrothed for the slightest whimsical offense. Myron is bound to commit one...
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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-13
9780006482123
eBay Product ID (ePID)
86319795
Product Key Features
Book Title
Ports of Call
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Books
Publication Year
1999
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
178mm
Item Width
111mm
Item Weight
160g
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United Kingdom
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