Island of the Dead

by Jean Frémon

The various characters that inhabit Paris's Jardin des Plantes share their researches and knowledge with one another, just as they share petty jealousies, admirations, and dislikes of one another. Through the eye of the unnamed narrator, Fr mon creates a world of what often seems like random bits of knowledge but is, in fact, an interconnecting skein of ideas--philosophical, scientific, religious, and literary--that questions and searches out the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 193124331X
• ISBN13: 9781931243315
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Green Integer
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 6.1"