Description |
1 online resource (viii, 229 pages) |
Contents |
COVER; AUTHOR'S NOTE; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; CHAPTER FIFTEEN; CHAPTER SIXTEEN; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN; CHAPTER EIGHTEEN; CHAPTER NINETEEN; CHAPTER TWENTY; CHAPTER TWENTY ONE; ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
Summary |
Joe Fairlie is a treasure dowser. As the novel opens, he locates The Blessing of Burntisland, a seventeenth-century treasure barge sunk in the Firth of Forth off Scotland. The treasure of King Charles I has lain in the sea for decades; but so it seems have the spirits of two of the ship's survivors. At his moment of greatest triumph, Joe is assailed by the first of many waking dreams that plunge him into the life of one of the wreck's survivors, the court doctor, Thomas Newbolt, who is the antithesis of Joe. The other survivor is the magical boy, Robbie. In this picaresque novel of possession |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Treasure troves -- Scotland -- Fiction
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Spirit possession -- Fiction
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FICTION -- General.
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Spirit possession.
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Treasure troves.
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Scotland.
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Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781849409100 |
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1849409102 |
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1283245671 |
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9781283245678 |
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