Nautical Chart

by Arturo Perez-Reverte; Margaret Sayers Peden

A Spanish sailor named Coy becomes intrigued by a beautiful woman he encounters at a maritime auction. Her name is Tánger, and she is in search of a lost treasure that she believes lies at the bottom of the ocean off the coast. She draws Coy into her obsessive scheme to find it--and he, of course, falls in love with her.

Available editions of Nautical Chart

	9780156013055, Paperback, Harcourt, 2002 $1.00 (Good ) Other copies of 9780156013055

	9780156029827, Paperback, Mariner Books, 2004 $1.00 (New ) Other copies of 9780156029827

	9780151005345, Hardcover, Harcourt, 2001 $1.00 (Used - Very Good) Other copies of 9780151005345

Publisher Notes

Coy is a suspended sailor with time on his hands, a mariner without a ship. While attending a maritime auction in Barcelona, he meets a beautiful woman who immediately captures his imagination. Tánger Soto, who works for the Naval Museum in Madrid, is obsessed with the Dei Gloria, a Jesuit ship sunk by pirates in the seventeenth century, and now-she hopes-resting on the bottom of the sea off the southern coast of Spain. Tánger uses her considerable manipulative skills with men and her expertise with documents, atlases, and nautical maps to chart the search for lost treasure. Coy is quickly drawn into the search, and before long finds himself falling in love. Along with El Piloto, the world-wise old man of the sea whose sailboat will carry this adventurous crew, they seek their fortune together. Or do they? As these lively characters follow the course of past sailors, their own journey becomes perilous. Are there secrets dwelling in the depths of the sea? And what of the depths of the heart? This highly intelligent and meticulously plotted novel combines the richness of atmosphere we have come to expect from Pérez-Reverte with the romance and mystery of the sea found in the novels of Melville, Conrad, and O'Brian. An unforgettable adventure. "The master of the intellectual thriller."--San Francisco Chronicle

Media Reviews

"It's an irresistibly juicy set-up, and when Pérez-Reverte is really cooking he gets you high on his own hokum....But the story gets bogged down in endless details of charting navigational courses, in degree differences between ancient charts and modern ones, in history lessons that slowly reveal the story of the ship they are questing for. Instead of immersing you in a world of adventure and romance, the facts that Pérez-Reverte keeps enumerating get in the way of the story, and the action sputters along....It may be churlish to balk at flaws when an author is as entertaining as Pérez-Reverte at his best. But he's good enough to have gotten his readers used to high standards."

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