The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet

Published by Random House London, 2009

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GORGEOUS SIGNED AND LIMITED EDITION of this worldwide publishing sensation. This is UNDOUBTEDLY the collector's edition, number 330 of only 500 copies available. This will never be reprinted! Still in its original wrapping. T.S. Spivet is a 12-year-old genius mapmaker from Montana. His father is a tight-lipped cowboy and his mother is a scientist who for the last twenty years has been looking for a mythical species of beetle. His brother has gone, his sister seems normal but might not be, and his dog - Verywell - is going mad. It's odd, but then families are. T.S. makes sense of it all by drawing beautiful, meticulous maps kept in colour-coded notebooks: maps of the countryside, maps of his family's behaviour, maps of animal and plant life. He is brilliant, and the Smithsonian Institution agrees, though when they telephone with news that he has won a major scientific prize they don't suspect for a minute that he is twelve years old. So begins T.S.'s life-changing adventure, fleeing in the dead of night, riding freight trains two thousand miles across America to reach the awards dinner, the fame, the secret-society membership and the TV appearances that beckon. But is this what he wants? Do maps and lists explain the world? And why are adults so strange? "The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet" is a story like no other: exhilarating, funny, endlessly charming and unbearably poignant. It is a journey through life's mysteries great and small, and about how on earth a boy with a telescope, four compasses and a theodolite should set about solving them. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng.…

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Title
The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet
Author
Reif Larsen - LIMITED SIGNED SLIPCASED
Publisher
Random House London
Publication year
2009
Condition
New
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Binding
Hardcover
Edition
Limited Edition.

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