Bright and distant shores
Subtitle: a novel
By: Dominic Smith
Edition: 1st Washington Square Press trade pbk. ed.
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 470
ISBN-13: 9781439198865; 9781439198889
Subjects: Fiction
Description: Chicago, 1897. An obsessive collector and insurance magnate commissions the world's tallest building. Determined to compete with Marshall Field's recent donation of $1 million to found the Field Museum, the tycoon funds a private collecting voyage into the Pacific.