The Carrier

by JamalMajoub (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1998

  $49.97

  In Jutland a scientific instrument is discovered in an archaeological dig and a young Turkish archaelogist is invited to examine its possible origins. This opening episode takes the reader back in time to 16th century Algiers. A noble- man has fallen in love with one of his servants and it transpires that both she and the nobleman's wife give birth on the same day. One of the twins becomes a slave to his brother bud decides torun away to educate himself and stop being a slave. He joins the crew of a ship bound for the new world, which is caught in a storm, drowning everyone except him. He is washed up on the shores of Jut- land and rescued, then goes to Cyprus where he spends 3 years reading and learn-ing and becomes a scholar working in a library. He returns first to Jutland thenheads south on a ship which will take him back to the world he left behind.

• Used

  Paperback
  1998

  $3.40

  In Jutland a scientific instrument is discovered in an archaeological dig and a young Turkish archaeologist is invited to explain its possible origins. This opening episode takes the reader back in time to 16th-century Algiers. Rashid - a slave - decides to run away to educate himself. The ship he is on capsizes drowning everyone but Rashid who gets washed up on the shores of Jutland. He is discovered by Heinesen, an apprentice of the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, who designed and built instruments. Everybody believes that Rashid must be some sort of animal-demon but Heinesen rescues him from imprisonment. He then goes to Cyprus and becomes a scholar working in the library of a wealthy timber merchant. After a brief affair with the man's wife, Rashid returns first to Jutland then heads south on a ship which will take him back to the world he left behind.