Balthasar's Odyssey

Description:

In 1665, with prophecies and portents foretelling the forthcoming Apocalypse, Balthasar, an antiquarian merchant and sage, embarks on a perilous quest to find a rare book that could hold the key to the world's salvation. Description: 391 pages : map ; 25 cm. Other Titles: Périple de Baldassare. Responsibility: Amin Maalouf ; translated from the French by Barbara Bray.

subjects: Religion,  End of the world,  Fiction,  Voyages and travels,  Merchants,  Name,  God,  Lost books,  Fiction, historical,  Mediterranean region, fiction,  Fiction, historical, general,  History