NAKED NAME OF LOVE

In 1865, as Darwin's new theory of evolution begins to sweep aside oldcertainties, a young Jesuit priest and plant-hunter sets out into anunknown world. He is driven by twin passions: for science and for hisfaith. Travelling across the Eastern Steppes of Mongolia in the company ofa Buddhist monk and a local horseman, Joseph's journey is fraught withdanger, both physical and spiritual. But it is Namuunaa, the gifted shamanwoman who saves his life, who offers a greater challenge: she will teachhim what it is to love. A story of East meeting West and of a love thattranscends culture, faith and, ultimately, tragedy, this is both a novelon an epic scale and an astonishingly intimate story.