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…Using as a foundation the romantic story of his parents meeting and falling in love in Canada, he weaves together three differing but complementary journeys of exploration and discovery: his mother's escape from stultifying Yorkshire to sail across the Atlantic with a dream of helping the Eskimos give birth; an Irish whaler who jumps ship and falls in love with a Maori maiden before being recaptured and punished with 60 lashes; and the story of Zheng He, the great Chinese explorer whose extraordinary exploits were expunged from the records when the emperor decided he no longer existed…. |
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