"First published as Donna di Porto Pim by Sellerio editore, 1983"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Prologue -- Hesperides. A dream in letter form -- I. Shipwrecks, flotsam, crossings, distances. Small blue whales strolling about the Azores; Fragment of a story; Other fragments; Antero de Quental: a life -- II. Of whales and whalemen. High seas; The woman of Porto Pim: a story -- Postscript: A whale's view of man -- Appendix. A map, a note, a few books.
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