01315cam a2200205 i 4500003000900000003000900009005001700018008004100035020001800076040003200094100001700126245004800143264003900191300002300230520074200253650002600995650003501021651002301056655003001079PH-MaWHOPH-MaWHO20241108112737.0160405s2016    stk           000 1 eng    a9780399588433  aDLCbengerdacWPRO Library1 aMartel, Yann14aThe high mountains of Portugal :ba novel / 1aNew York :bSpiegel & Grau,c2016.  a332 pages ;c24 cm  aIn Lisbon in 1904, a young man named Tomás discovers an old journal. It hints at the existence of an extraordinary artifact that-if he can find it-would redefine history. Traveling in one of Europe's earliest automobiles, he sets out in search of this strange treasure. Thirty-five years later, a Portuguese pathologist devoted to the murder mysteries of Agatha Christie finds himself at the center of a mystery of his own and drawn into the consequences of Tomás's quest. Fifty years on, a Canadian senator takes refuge in his ancestral village in northern Portugal, grieving the loss of his beloved wife. But he arrives with an unusual companion: a chimpanzee. And there the century-old quest will come to an unexpected conclusion. 0aAntiquitiesvFiction. 0aQuests (Expeditions)vFiction. 0aPortugalvFiction. 7aHistorical fiction.2lcsh