Quicksilver - Neal Stephenson - First Edition Hardback 2003 space exploration and after World War II

and after World War II

"I never did see the beat of that boy

through Cathy's marriage to Edgar Linton and Heathcliff's plans for revenge

the boys overhear a conversation between two suspicious-looking Italians which immediately arouses their detective instincts

But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard Gandalf and a company of dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an adventure

Quicksilver - Neal Stephenson - First Edition Hardback 2003 space exploration and after World War IICondition: Acceptable. See images for more details. This is a first edition hardback. Blurb: 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. Series: Book 1