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Quicksilver : The Baroque Cycle #1 - Neal Stephenson

Quicksilver

The Baroque Cycle #1

By: Neal Stephenson

Paperback | 31 January 2006

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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.

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