Europa, um 1665: Der junge Daniel Waterhouse begeistert sich fรผr die bahnbrechenden Theorien von Newton und Leibniz. Zugleich werden Abenteurer und Glรผcksritter wie der Londoner Gassenjunge Jack Shaftoe und die von ihm aus einem tรผrkischen Harem befreite Eliza zu treibenden Krรคften einer
Quicksilver
โ Scribed by Amanda Quick
- Publisher
- Penguin Group US
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 187 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1101524286
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โฆ Synopsis
A Victorian glass-reader and a psychic investigator play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with a killer determined to trap them in the second installment of the New York Times bestselling Looking Glass Trilogy.
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