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      Explorers of the New Century

      by Magnus Mills
      Published
      Mar 2006
      Main Genre
      Action Adventure Action & Adventure
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      184
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      "A masterfully realized comic novel . . . like something out of Gulliver's Travels by way of Franz Kafka and P. G. Wodehouse" (Library Journal).

       


      Set at the dawn of the great age of exploration—closely resembling the era of Shackleton and Perry and Scott—two intrepid teams of adventurers set off through an arid, lifeless landscape. Both are vying to reach the AFP, or Agreed Furthest Point—a worthy, even ennobling cause. The competition is friendly but conditions are extreme. To get through the race, both teams must learn to make sacrifices, and rely heavily on their mules for survival . . . a dependency that will come with a price.


       


      From the Man Booker Prize–nominated author of The Forensic Records Society and The Restraint of Beasts—a novel Thomas Pynchon called a "demented, deadpan-comic wonder"—Explorers of the New Century offers a blend of white-knuckle suspense, shocking revelations, and brilliant social satire.

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      General Fiction Suspense

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      Action Adventure Historical

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      First Edition Mar 2006 Harvest ISBN13 9780156030786 ISBN10 0156030780
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      Sep 2011 Bloomsbury (UK) ISBN13 9781408825303 ISBN10 1408825309
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      Mar 2006 Harcourt ISBN13 9780547564104 ISBN10 0547564104
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      Mar 2006 Houghton Mifflin ISBN10 B003T0GAOS
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