Quicksilver

Volume One of The Baroque Cycle (The Baroque cycle -- v. 1)

Paperback, 927 pages

English language

Published March 25, 2004 by Perennial.

ISBN:
9780060593087
OCLC Number:
56669004

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Quicksilver is the story of Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and conflicted Puritan, pursuing knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe, in a chaotic world where reason wars with the bloody ambitions of the mighty, and where catastrophe, natural or otherwise, can alter the political landscape overnight.

It is a chronicle of the breathtaking exploits of "Half-Cocked Jack" Shaftoe--London street urchin turned swashbuckling adventurer and legendary King of the Vagabonds--risking life and limb for fortune and love while slowly maddening from the pox.

And it is the tale of Eliza, rescued by Jack from a Turkish harem to become spy, confidante, and pawn of royals in order to reinvent Europe through the newborn power of finance.

A gloriously rich, entertaining, and endlessly inventive novel that brings a remarkable age and its momentous events to vivid life, Quicksilver is an extraordinary achievement from one of the most original …

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Subjects

  • Eighteenth century
  • Adventure stories
  • Scientists
  • Seventeenth century
  • Alchemists
  • Fiction