A sailor without a ship, exiled from the sea, meets a strange woman who has the answers to questions that some men have been asking themselves since the beginning of time... Wreck hunters in search of the ghost of a ship that sank in the Mediterranean, problems of latitude and longitude whose secret lies hidden in old routes and nautical charts, in maritime museums, in libraries... Never have the sea and history, the science of navigation, adventure, and mystery been combined so masterfully in a novel as in "The Nautical Chart". From Melville to Stevenson and Conrad, from Homer to Patrick O'Brian, the literature of the sea is found in the pages of this captivating story.