Publisher's Synopsis
"I have seen the most beautiful thing in the universe."The dying man's words haunt Mem, along with the impossible map tucked in his breast pocket. It is curiosity, hooked deep in his heart, that drives Mem to the brink of death: a dangerous place for someone such as him, immortal but for any end he might inflict upon himself through carelessness or folly. Mem, in his various incarnations as botanist, scholar, mountaineer and explorer, has made many mistakes over the course of his long life, but this one is so monumental that it ought to have its own gravity- not, of course, that he will realise that for some time yet.
