01396cam a2200217 i 4500 PH-MaWHO PH-MaWHO 20241108112737.0 160405s2016 stk 000 1 eng 9780399588433 DLC eng rda WPRO Library Martel, Yann 674487 The high mountains of Portugal : a novel / New York : Spiegel & Grau, 2016. 332 pages ; 24 cm In 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. Antiquities Fiction. 674777 Quests (Expeditions) Fiction. 674778 Portugal Fiction. 674779 Historical fiction. lcsh 674578 17791 17791 0 0 nml 0 0 FIC WPRO WPRO Mez 2024-07-05 donation 0 FIC MARy High FIC0052 2024-05-20 00:00:00 MONO