Quicksilver (Baroque Cycle 1), Neal Stephenson food & travel An invitation to a magical

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Quicksilver (Baroque Cycle 1), Neal Stephenson food & travel An invitation to a magicalNeal Stephenson follows his international bestseller, the WWII thriller Cryptonomicon, with a novel set in the 16th and 17th centuries, in a world of war, scientific, religious and political turmoil. With a cast of characters that includes Newton, Leibniz, Christopher Wren, Charles II, Cromwell and the young Benjamin Franklin, Stephenson again shows his extraordinary ability to get inside a place and time; as he did for the futures of his science