Title Bright and distant shores : a novel / Dominic Smith

Edition First Washington Square Press trade paperback edition Published Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2011

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Description 504 pages : map ; 23 cm Summary Chicago, 1897. An obsessive collector and insurance magnate commissions the world's tallest building. Determined to compete with Marshall Field's recent donation of $1 million to found the Field Museum, the tycoon funds a private collecting voyage into the Pacific Notes "Washington Square Press fiction original trade"--T.p. verso Victorian Premier's Literature Award, 2011 Subject Buildings -- Fiction. Historical fiction, American. SUBJECT Chicago (Ill.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78086438 Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008100185 Oceania -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116421 Oceania. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85093910 South Pacific Ocean http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125590 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562 South Pacific Ocean. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125590 Genre/Form Historical fiction. Romance fiction. Fiction. ISBN 9781439198865 (trade paperback) 9781742374161 (paperback)

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