Tales of the New World: Stories

✍ Scribed by Murray, Sabina

• Book ID: 110478090
• Publisher: Grove Atlantic
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 494 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780802195050

✦ Synopsis

In her first collection of stories since her PEN/Faulkner-winning The Caprices , Sabina Murray confronts the manipulation, compassion, ambition, and controversy surrounding some of the most intrepid and sadistic pioneers of the last four millennia.

Iconic explorers and settlers are made intimately human as they plow through the un-navigated boundaries of their worlds to give shape to modern geography, philosophy, and science. As Ferdinand Magellan sets out on his final voyage, he forms an unlikely friendship with a rich scholar who harbors feelings for the captain, but in the end cannot save Magellan from his own greed. Balboa's peek at the South Sea may never have happened if it wasn't for his loyal and vicious dog, Leonico, and an unavoidable urge to relieve himself. And Captain Zimri Coffin is plagued by sleepless nights after reading Frankenstein, that is until his crew rescues two shipwrecked Englishmen who carry rumor of a giant and deadly white...