Sailing Against the Wind
A Novel
Published on 30. January 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
480 pages
978-0-8101-2652-7 (ISBN)
Description
Jaan Kross's historical novel Sailing Against the Wind fictionalizes the life of Bernhard Schmidt (1879-1935), an Estonian-born inventor. It is a meditation on national identity, the relationship between history and the individual life, and the mechanisms of the historical novel as a genre.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Evanston
United States
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 139 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
486 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8101-2652-7 (9780810126527)
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