The Mapmaker

This book has been read, minor wear to covers and dust jacket, previous owner signed first inner page. No other markings inner pages, spine intact no creases. """Battle at Sea... Fabulous Far-off Lands... Romance and Adventure... fill the pages of the raging sea-novel—the story of Andrea Bianco, the Ventian navigator who searched always for the challenge and danger of the unknown. His is a tale of cutlass striking scimitar, of the beautiful, unattainable Angelia, od loss at sea, rescue and death..."" Good Reads" """Frank Gill Slaughter , pen-name Frank G. Slaughter, pseudonym C.V. Terry, was an American novelist and physician whose books sold more than 60 million copies. His novels drew on his own experience as a doctor and his interest in history and the Bible. Through his novels, he often introduced readers to new findings in medical research and new medical technologies. Slaughter was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Stephen Lucious Slaughter and Sarah ""Sallie"" Nicholson Gill. When he was about five years old, his family moved to a farm near Berea, North Carolina, which is west of Oxford, North Carolina. He earned a bachelor's degree from Trinity College (now Duke University) at 17 and went to medical school at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. He began writing fiction in 1935 while a physician at Riverside Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida."