Title: Le Periple De Baldassare
Description: In 1665, with prophecies and portents foretelling the forthcoming Apocalypse, Balthasar, an antiquarian merchant and sage, embarks on a perilous quest to find a rare book that could hold the key to the world's salvation.


Description: 	391 pages : map ; 25 cm.
Other Titles: 	Périple de Baldassare.
Responsibility: 	Amin Maalouf ; translated from the French by Barbara Bray.
Subjects: Religion, End of the world, Fiction, Voyages and travels, Merchants, Name, God, Lost books, Fiction, historical, Mediterranean region, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, History