### From Publishers Weekly The discovery of a fragment of a prehistoric cave painting stirs up old passions in modern Europe in this busy, fact-driven fourth novel by commentator and journalist Walker (America Reborn). When Maj. Philip Manners approaches auction house expert Lydia Dean about an obj
The caves of Périgord: a novel
✍ Scribed by Walker, Martin
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Year
- 2001;2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 264 KB
- Edition
- 5
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780743227681
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✦ Synopsis
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Chapter 1: Time: The Present; Chapter 2: The Vézère Valley, approximately 15,000 b.c.; Chapter 3: Arisaig, Scotland, 1943; Chapter 4: Time: The Present; Chapter 5: The Vézère Valley, 15,000 B.C.; Chapter 6: The Audrix Plateau, Périgord, 1944; Chapter 7: Time: The Present; Chapter 8: The Vézère Valley, 15,000 B.C.; Chapter 9: Périgord, 1944; Chapter 10: Time: The Present; Chapter 11: The Vézère Valley, 15,000 B.C.; Chapter 12: Périgord, 1944; Chapter 13: Time: The Present; Chapter 14: The Vézère Valley, 15,000 B.C.; Chapter 15: Périgord, 1944;When a young American woman, who works at a London auction house, receives a 17,000-year-old fragment of a cave painting from a British soldier, she sets out to find the fragment's true origins.
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