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About the book
The Hydrographer is the story of Franz von Karsch, who set sail from Hamburg for Valparaiso in the spring of 1905, to uncover the scientific basis for the movement of marine waters. But all his serious pretexts cannot disguise the fact that his life has reached an impasse from which excape lies on neither land nor sea. Even his fellow passengers, the prep-school teacher Totleben and the saltpeter merchant Moser, can do little to distract him. Then fate takes a surprising twist. Von Karsch loses interest in his study and becomes entangled in a web of intrigue. In this melancholy but also unrelenting narrative, Schröder shows himself to be a sensitive stylist and a skillful teller of tales.
