Book of Heathen, The
Publisher: Black Swan Books
Published: 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9780552999250
Subjects: Historical - General; Psychological; Fiction - Psychological Suspense
First sentence: Across the river the Custom House gun was fired, and at the instant it sounded I raised my pen from the chart on which I was working so that my momentary distraction might not become a waver, an irregularity on the contour where none otherwise existed, a tree in the treeless desert, or, worse still, a blot, the mapmaker's clumsy footprint.