QuicksilverThe Baroque Cycle No 1

QUICKSILVER is the first book of the three books that made up the first volume (QUICKSILVER) of Neal Stephensons three-volume epic, The Baroque Cycle. QUICKSILVER: Book One of the Baroque Cycle tells the story of Daniel Waterhouse, a fearless thinker and courageous, conflicted Puritan who 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.Gloriously rich, entertaining, and endlessly inventive, QUICKSILVER is the first installment in extraordinary saga that brings a remarkable age and its momentous events to vivid life.