THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO Volume I (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781421846842)

On the 24th of February, 1815, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples. As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding the Chateau d'If, got on board the vessel between Cape Morgion and Rion island. Immediately, and according to custom, the ramparts of Fort Saint-Jean were covered with spectators; it is always an event at Marseilles for a ship to come into port, especially when this ship, like the Pharaon, has been built, rigged, and laden at the old Phocee docks, and belongs to an owner of the city. The ship drew on and had safely passed the strait, which some volcanic shock has made between the Calasareigne.....

Author: Alexandre Dumas
ISBN-10: 1421846845
ISBN-13: 9781421846842
Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society
Language: English
Published: 08/16/2007
Pages: 676
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.15lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.49d