The Dark of the Stars - Hamilton, William
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This is a collector's edition hardcover with full-color images inside. Robert doesn't expect much from the summer of his fifteenth year. Abandoned by his foster parents, left behind by his friends, he's prepared to spend much of his time dreaming about the world outside. But then a strange milkman appears at his house, offering him an opportunity that's unlike anything his mind ever conjured-a safari to an exotic faraway land called Santania, which is not on any map. There, they'll deliver medicine to a disease-ridden population and perhaps look for some stolen diamonds¿if they can avoid the…mehr

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This is a collector's edition hardcover with full-color images inside. Robert doesn't expect much from the summer of his fifteenth year. Abandoned by his foster parents, left behind by his friends, he's prepared to spend much of his time dreaming about the world outside. But then a strange milkman appears at his house, offering him an opportunity that's unlike anything his mind ever conjured-a safari to an exotic faraway land called Santania, which is not on any map. There, they'll deliver medicine to a disease-ridden population and perhaps look for some stolen diamonds¿if they can avoid the diabolical and power-mad doctor who lords over the country's frightened population. On this adventure through the most beautiful and unforgiving of lands, Robert will find danger, intrigue, and romance, and discover the meaning of true friendship and self-reliance. Robert's fifteenth summer might just be the most incredible and awakening one yet . . . if he only has the courage to take that first step.
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William Hamilton (1936-2000) was a naturalist and geneticist who died of a disease contracted in Africa when he was investigating the origins of the AIDS virus. At his funeral service in the chapel of New College, Oxford, Richard Dawkins announced that William Hamilton was now accepted as "the greatest evolutionary biologist since Charles Darwin". His official biography, Nature's Oracle, was released by Oxford University Press in April 2013 and reviewed by Alasdair Gray that year in the Scottish Review of Books. Between 1995 and 2005, three volumes of his collected scientific papers, The Narrow Roads of Gene Land, were published by Macmillan Press at Oxford, New York, and Heidelberg. The Dark of the Stars is his only novel.