Silk
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When an epidemic threatens to destroy the silk trade in France, the young merchant Herve Joncour leaves his doting wife and his comfortable home in the small town of Lavilledieu and travels across Siberia to the other end of the world, to Japan, to obtain eggs for a fresh breeding of silk worms. It is the 1860s; Japan is closed to foreigners and this has to be a clandestine operation. During his u... More
Book Information
Publisher | Harvill Press |
Binding | Hardcover (12 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized |
# of Pages | 91 |
ISBN-10 | 1860462588 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1860462580 |
Publication Date | 11/1997 |
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About Guido Waldman (Translator) : Guido Waldman is a published translator. Published credits of Guido Waldman include The Decameron (Oxford World's Classics), Silk.
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