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First U.S.Edition, 1999 (later printing). Hardcover, black cloth with gold title to spine, 399 pp. Oprah Bookclub edition d/j. Condition Fine, with Near Fine unclipped d/j, in mylar. Young Eliza Sommers, raised among conservative English relatives in Valparaiso, Chile, sets sail in search of her departed lover, gone to seek his fortune in the California gold rush of the 1840's. From the blurb: the " on a perilous journey north in the hold of a ship to the rough and tumble world of SanFrancisco and northern California, we enter a world who's newly arrived inhabitants are driven mad by gold fever…Her search for the elusive Joaquin gradually turns into another kind of journey that transforms over time, and what begins as a search for love ends up as the conquest of personal freedom."
Ref: FICT20 8635
$50.00