Empires of Sand - Hardcover

Ball, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0553110144 ISBN 13: 9780553110142

Verlag: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 1999

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Book by Ball David

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Separated during the Franco-Prussian War, two cousins--one destined to be a count, the other a soldier--will meet later as adversaries in the Sahara. 30,000 first printing.

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teriously beautiful, richly hued landscape of the Saharan mountains to the sumptuous splendor of nineteenth-century Paris, Empires of Sand is a novel that takes us on an extraordinary, powerfully emotional journey. In a clash between two civilizations, two men of common blood discover that in war, love, and even family, they are both destined to be outsiders....

The year is 1870. The proud Republic of France is crumbling under the onslaught of the Prussian army. Paris is under siege. Too young to understand the shifting fortunes of the empire, two boys forge a bond with their breathless adventures in the tunnels beneath the threatened city. Paul deVries is the cousin and constant companion of Michel deVries--called Moussa--whose world-explorer father shocked Paris with his marriage to a noblewoman of the Sahara. Moussa will inherit the title of count; Paul is destined to be a soldier like his father. But tragic events will send Moussa fleeing to his mother's homeland, with it

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• Verlag: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0553110144
• ISBN 13: 9780553110142
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 251