Servants of the Map: Stories

by Andrea Barrett (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  2002

  $4.37

  Spanning two centuries, an intricately woven collection of stories and novellas journeys across landscapes of yearning, awakening, loss, and unexpected discovery as the lives of extraordinary characters unfold in a borderland between science and passion.

• Used

  Paperback
  2003

  $13.90

  A national hardback bestseller in the US - another magnificently imagined and executed book of historical fiction with a contemporary twist, from one of the masters of the form. `These stories possess a wonderful clarity and ease, the serene authority of a writer working at the very height of her powers.' New York Times

  Ranging across two centuries, and from the western Himalayas to an Adirondack village, Servants of the Map travels the territories of yearning and awakening, of loss and unexpected discovery.

  A mapper of the highest mountain peaks, engaged on the trigonometrical measurement of British India, realizes his true obsession while in deflationary correspondence with his far-off wife. A young woman afire with scientific curiosity must come to terms with a romantic fantasy. Brothers and sisters, torn apart at an early age, are beset by dreams of reunion. Throughout, Barrett's most characteristic theme - the happenings in that borderland between science and desire - unfolds in the diverse lives of unforgettable human beings.