Carrier by Jamal Mahjoub

(Paperback)

Comments from the Seller: London 1998 Softcover Very Good with no dust jacket 1-861591-01-2. 278 pp. Edgewear, corners rubbed. In the 17th century, Rashid-al-Kenzy is in prison for a murder he did not commit. The Dey of Algiers offers him freedom in return for travelling to Europe to obtain a strange Dutch optical device, one of the first telescopes. Fate intervenes, and he finds himself shipwrecked, and thrown into different circumstances that challenge his faith and beliefs. A rich and intelligent novel about a man's quest for enlightenment.; 8vo 8"-9" tall.

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