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Green Dolphin Country by Elizabeth Goudge 1968

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. ### Green Dolphin Country by Elizabeth Goudge 1968 ### ## THIS BOOK: Classified as FINE: This is the 1968 edition. The First edition 1944, and the Seventeenth impression in 1968. Dust jacket is full colour with a title panel to the top of the page. The binding is hardcover in a duck egg grey fine paper. There is a minor amount of shelf damage to the dust jacket, no bumping of foxing.## ## In the 1840s, in the town of San Pierre on the English Channel Island of Guernsey, two sisters, Marguerite and Marianne Patourel, daughters of the wealthy Octavius Patourel, fall in love with the same young man, William Ozanne. Marguerite is sweet and simple, while Marianne is extremely shrewd and plans to take over the family shipping business. William is the son of Dr. Edmond Ozanne who has recently returned to the island after many years away. Additionally, Dr. Ozanne is the former teenage lover of Sophie Patourel, Marguerite and Marianne's mother. Sophie's mother broke up their youthful romance over Edmond's heavy drinking and lower social status. She married Octavius afterwards, under pressure from her parents. ## ## Meanwhile, the new clipper ship Green Dolphin arrives in the island's port. The captain of the ship, Captain O'Hara, tells William and Marianne of the wonders of the new colony of New Zealand. Captain O'Hara's men catch a stow-away, Timothy Haslam, who recently killed his brother-in-law in self-defense. Captain O'Hara believes his story and agrees to smuggle the man to New Zealand. Marianne then schemes for her father to sponsor William to be a naval officer. After a two-year time skip, William returns to the island for a day. On the island, he secretly declares his love for Marguerite and his father dies suddenly. William reluctantly agrees to return to his ship and travels to China. In China, he sends a love letter and gift to Marguerite, but is then drugged and robbed. He misses his ship and is labeled as a deserter. Fortuitously, he finds the Green Dolphin in the Chinese port. He sneaks aboard the ship and travels to New Zealand, where he will be safe from the law. Captain O'Hara finds William work in New Zealand as a school teacher, but he chooses to travel into the back-country with Timothy instead??.## ### INTERNATIONAL BUYERS: Please Note. FREE SHIPPING IS UK ONLY. Please get in touch with me for a shipping quotation. ###. No Author signature. Nº de ref. del artículo: MMF-261-fiction

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