The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man: 2 - Rilegato

Hodder, Mark

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ISBN 10: 1907777024 ISBN 13: 9781907777028

Casa editrice: Snowbooks Ltd, 2011

Riassunto

What if Time presented Charles Darwin with a different set of opportunities? What if he became a super-criminal? Florence Nightingale a rogue surgeon? Isambard Kingdom Brunel a living corpse in a massive mechanized steam-driven body? It is 1861, and Albertian Britain is in the grip of conflicting forces. Engineers transform the landscape with bigger, faster, noisier and dirtier technological wonders; Eugenicists develop specialist animals to provide unpaid labour; Libertines oppose restrictive and unjust laws and flood the country with propaganda demanding a society based on beauty and creativity; while The Rakes push the boundaries of human behaviour to the limits with magic, sexuality, drugs and anarchy. Returning from his failed expedition to find the source of the Nile, explorer, linguist, scholar and swordsman Sir Richard Francis Burton finds himself sucked into the perilous depths of this moral and ethical vacuum when the Prime Minister, Lord Palmerston, employs him as aaC--A"KingaaC--(t)s Spy.aaC--Au

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1862: Albertian Britain is in the grip of conflicting forces. Engineers transform the landscape with bigger, faster, noisier and dirtier technological wonders; Eugenicists develop specialist animals to provide unpaid labour; Libertines oppose restrictive and unjust laws and flood the country with propaganda demanding a society based on beauty and creativity; while The Rakes push the boundaries of human behaviour to the limits with magic, sexuality, drugs and anarchy. "Sir Richard Francis Burton and poet Algernon Swinburne's investigation into a theft of black diamonds, ultimately embroiling them in the affairs of a dubious claimant, supposedly the heir of a cursed estate...is deliciously entertaining." -- Steampunk Scholar

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Snowbooks Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1907777024
• ISBN 13: 9781907777028
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 441
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile