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On Stranger Tides

On Stranger Tides

On Stranger Tides
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On Stranger Tides Paperback - 2011

by Tim Powers

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HarperTorch. Used - Very Good. Minimal wear to cover. Pages clean and binding tight. shelf wear. bumped edges. Paperback.
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  • Title On Stranger Tides
  • Author Tim Powers
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Very good
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher HarperTorch, New York, NY, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2011-04-26
  • Bookseller's Inventory # KA16-00238
  • ISBN 9780062101075 / 0062101072
  • Weight 0.56 lbs (0.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.94 x 5.39 x 0.84 in (20.17 x 13.69 x 2.13 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Category Fiction - Fantasy
  • Library of Congress subjects Fantasy fiction, Pirates
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
  • Quantity available 3

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Reader reviews for On Stranger Tides

From the publisher

"Powers writes action and adventure that Indiana Jones could only dream of."
--Washington Post

"Tim Powers is a brilliant writer."
--William Gibson

The remarkable Tim Powers--who ingeniously married the John Le Carr spy novel to the otherworldly in his critically acclaimed Declare--brings us pirate adventure with a dazzling difference. On Stranger Tides features Blackbeard, ghosts, voodoo, zombies, the fable Fountain of Youth...and more swashbuckling action than you could shake a cutlass at, as reluctant buccaneer John Shandy braves all manner of peril, natural and supernatural, to rescue his ensorcelled love. Nominated for the Locus and World Fantasy Awards, On Stranger Tides is the book that inspired the motion picture Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides--non-stop, breathtaking fiction from the genius imagination that conceived Last Call, Expiration Date, and Three Days to Never.

From the rear cover

Aboard the Vociferous Carmichael, puppeteer John Chandagnac is sailing toward Jamaica to claim his stolen birthright from an unscrupulous uncle, when the vessel is captured . . . by pirates! Offered a choice by Captain Phil Davies to join their seafaring band or die, Chandagnac assumes the name John Shandy and a new life as a brigand. But more than swashbuckling sea battles and fabulous plunder await the novice buccaneer on the roiling Caribbean waters-for treachery and powerful vodun sorcery are coins of the realm in this dark new world. And for the love of beautiful, magically imperiled Beth Hurwood, Shandy will set sail on even stranger tides, following the savage, ghost-infested pirate king, Blackbeard, and a motley crew of the living and the dead to the cursed nightmare banks of the fabled Fountain of Youth.

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