by Javier Moro · Booket · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432239007
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«A flor de piel» is the historical novel by Javier Moro, published by Booket in paperback (496 pages, in Spanish).
The novel recreates the Royal Philanthropic Expedition of the Vaccine: in 1803 a corvette sets sail from La Coruña with twenty-two orphan children carrying the smallpox vaccine, under the care of Isabel Zendal and the direction of doctors Balmis and Salvany. Storms, shipwrecks, clerical hostility, corruption and greed mark the voyage.
Javier Moro is the author of Pasión india and El imperio eres tú; the novel originally appeared in 2015.
For readers of historical fiction and literary fiction with an interest in real expeditions and female characters.
Javier Moro is a Spanish author known for his books like Pasión India.
