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The Philosopher Fish : Sturgeon, Caviar, and the Geography of Desire by Richard Adams Carey is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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<p>Thirty years ago, Pulitzer Prize—winning author and journalist Philip Caputo crossed the deserts of Sudan and Eritrea on foot and camelback, a journey that inspired his first novel, <i>Horn of Africa,</i> and awakened a lifelong fascination with Africa. His travels have since taken him back to Sudan, as well as to Kenya, Somalia, and Tanzania, and from those experiences he has fashioned <i>Acts of Faith,</i> his most ambitious novel. A stunning and timely epic, it tells the stories of pilots, aid workers, missionaries, and renegades struggling to relieve the misery wrought by the civil war in Sudan.<br><br>The hearts of these men and women are in the right place, but as they plunge into a well of moral corruption for which they are ill-prepared, their hidden flaws conspire with circumstances to turn their strengths–bravery, compassion, daring, and empathy–into weaknesses. In pursuit of noble ends, they make ethical compromises; their altruism curdles into self-righteous zealotry and greed, entangling them in a web of conspiracies that leads, finally, to murder. A few, however, escape the moral trap and find redemption in the discovery that firm convictions
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- Author
- Richard Adams Carey
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781400044917
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Rating
- 3.93 / 5 (38 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14