Set in the 17th century, Edward Popple and his 14-year-old daughter Rosamund leave for a sea voyage "to collect rarities and find out wonders". As the only survivors of a mutiny, they are washed ashore on a tropical island. They are soon joined by a Chinese prince and his faithful eunuch.
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Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st UK Edition. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition - Card Covers in a very good dustjacket. Dustjacket now protected in our purpose made clear archival plastic sleeve. 279 pages. Following a ship's mutiny, 17th-century naturalist Edward Popple and his daughter Rosamund find refuge on an uncharted island in the Indian Ocean. On the island they encounter Lou Lu, a Chinese eunuch, and his charge, Taizao, an impotent princeling, lost on the way to Rome to petition the Pope. They have a yellow rose. Rosamund and Taizao bewitch each other and Popple dreams of breedingg a new kind of rose. An Imaginative historical fable. Artikel-Nr. 324912
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