At the heart of this fascinating multi-layered adventure novel is an authentic account of the fate of the Austro-Hungarian expedition to the North Pole in 1873.
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Hearing in "Confessions of a Tourist", the author turned the material for conversations, conducted for the press over the years, into a fictitious hearing in which questions are asked about politics, adventures, literature, criticism...
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