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The Rover
Joseph Conrad
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Introduced by Chris Fletcher.
Bound in full buckram, printed and blocked with a design by the artist.
Set in Garamond with Romana display.
12 full-page linocuts by Francis Mosley.
9" x 6 1/4".
His days of roving at an end, old Peyrol - a French master-gunner in the Napoleonic Wars - retires to an isolated farmhouse on the Giens Peninsula. Over time he becomes the focal point of his new community.
In tortured souls like Arlette, haunted by her memories of The Terror, and the raw young naval lieutenant Réal, Peyrol discovers the power of human friendship - and a cause worth fighting for once more. 'I have wanted for a long time to do a seaman's "return" (before my own departure)', Conrad said of this, his final novel, in which he brought to a moving conclusion his life-long obsession with the sea.
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