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1880, South Africa - a land torn apart by greed...Frances Irvine, left penniless after her father's sudden death, is forced to emigrate to the Cape. In this barren country, she meets two very different men - one driven by ambition, the other by ideals. When a smallpox outbreak sends her to the diamond mines, she is drawn into a ruthless world of greed and exploitation, of human lives crushed in the scramble for power. But here - at last - she sees her path to happiness. Torn between passion and integrity, she makes a choice that has devastating consequences...
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The fever tree, Jennifer McVeigh
- Jazyk
- Rok vydání
- 2012
- Vazba
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- Titul
- The fever tree
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autoři
- Jennifer McVeigh
- Vydavatel
- Viking
- Rok vydání
- 2012
- Vazba
- měkká
- ISBN10
- 0670920908
- ISBN13
- 9780670920907
- Série
- Štítky
- Láska, 19. století, Anglie, Velká Británie, Afrika, Londýn, Ztráta, Boj o moc, Jihoafrická republika, Diamanty, Neštovice
- Původní název
- The fever-tree
- Hodnocení
- 3,7 z 5
- Anotace
- 1880, South Africa - a land torn apart by greed...Frances Irvine, left penniless after her father's sudden death, is forced to emigrate to the Cape. In this barren country, she meets two very different men - one driven by ambition, the other by ideals. When a smallpox outbreak sends her to the diamond mines, she is drawn into a ruthless world of greed and exploitation, of human lives crushed in the scramble for power. But here - at last - she sees her path to happiness. Torn between passion and integrity, she makes a choice that has devastating consequences...