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The Pope's Rhinoceros
Lawrence Norfolk
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Description for The Pope's Rhinoceros
Paperback. The tale of the sinking of a Portuguese ship off the coast of Italy in 1516, while attempting to deliver a rhinoceros to Pope Leo X. The hero, Salvestro, is caught up in a mission to Rome by a sect of secretive monks from a Baltic island, their first pilgrimage in 200 years. Illustrator(s): Durer, Albrecht. Num Pages: 768 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 49. Weight in Grams: 534. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
In February 1516, a Portugese ship sank with the loss of all hands a mile off the coast of Italy. The Nostra Senora da Adjuda had sailed 14000 miles from the Indian kingdom Gujarat: her mission, to deliver a rhinoceros to the Pope. The Pope's Rhinoceros tells the stories which culminate in this bizarre incident. Ranging from the Baltic Sea to a flyblown colony in India, from a tribe hidden in the African rain forest to atrocities committed in an obscure town in Tuscany, Norfolk's brilliant novel holds up the true history of the rhinoceros as a mirror to the ... Read more
In February 1516, a Portugese ship sank with the loss of all hands a mile off the coast of Italy. The Nostra Senora da Adjuda had sailed 14000 miles from the Indian kingdom Gujarat: her mission, to deliver a rhinoceros to the Pope. The Pope's Rhinoceros tells the stories which culminate in this bizarre incident. Ranging from the Baltic Sea to a flyblown colony in India, from a tribe hidden in the African rain forest to atrocities committed in an obscure town in Tuscany, Norfolk's brilliant novel holds up the true history of the rhinoceros as a mirror to the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
768
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780749398743
SKU
KAC0000710
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Lawrence Norfolk
Lawrence Norfolk was born in London in 1963. He has written four novels of historical fiction.
Reviews for The Pope's Rhinoceros
Bawdy baroque-punk prose of marvellous fluency, overlaid with a gloss of heavy-weight erudition... an astonishing achievement, little short of a masterpiece
William Dalrymple
Independent on Sunday
A gargantuan, dazzling fable by Britain's brightest young writer
Steven Poole
Guardian
A story of adventure enthralling in its scope and inventiveness, by turns comic and horrific, zestful ... Read more
William Dalrymple
Independent on Sunday
A gargantuan, dazzling fable by Britain's brightest young writer
Steven Poole
Guardian
A story of adventure enthralling in its scope and inventiveness, by turns comic and horrific, zestful ... Read more