01444cam a2200349 i 4500 1261843374 TxAuBib 950223s1995||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 95007594 9780151001514 0151001510 (OCoLC)569 DLC DLC JTE CSP FIT OCLCQ BAKER KSU UtOrBLW TxAuBib rda eng ita Eco, Umberto. Isola del giorno prima English. The island of the day before / Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by William Weaver. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Harcourt Brace & Co., 1995. 515 p. ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier ""A Helen and Kurt Wolff book."". A 17th Century Italian knight recounts his adventures during a siege in the Thirty Years' War and afterwards in naval espionage against the British. In between, he describes the salons of Paris, lessons in fencing and reasons of state, and gives his thoughts on writing love letters and on blasphemy. Gift from the library of Stephen Jama. Shipwrecks Oceania Fiction. Adventure fiction. Historical fiction. Weaver, William, 1923-2013. Stephen Jama Collection.