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Author:

Stephenson, Neal, author.

Title:

Quicksilver / Neal Stephenson.

Publisher:

Harper,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

xii, 456 pages : maps ; 18 cm.

Subject:

Adventure stories.
Seventeenth century--Fiction.
Eighteenth century--Fiction.
Scientists--Fiction.
Alchemists--Fiction.
Adventure stories.
Alchemists.
Eighteenth century.
Scientists.
Seventeenth century.
Action and adventure fiction.
Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Action and adventure fiction.

Summary:

"In which Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and courageous Puritan, pursues 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."--Back cover.

Series:

The Baroque cycle ; #1
Stephenson, Neal. Baroque cycle ; v. 1.

ISBN:

0060833165
9780060833169

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1030989057

Locations:

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)