The Confusion: Volume Two Of The Baroque Cycle by Stephenson, Neal - 2004

Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: William Morrow & Co, 2004. 815 Pages. Dust jacket priice $27.95 is unclipped with a one inch tear at back top spine area and minor edge wear. Colorful map endpapers. Tight, bright book that has been read a few times and has very slight spine cock. The Confusion is the second volume of this stunning historical fiction trilogy of ideas encompassing science, adventure, intrigue and politics. In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves, including one Jack Shaftoe lately and miraculously cured of the pox, devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure ensues, rife with battles, chases, hairbreadth escapes, swashbuckling, bloodletting, and danger. A perious race for an enormous prize of legendary gold that will place the intrepid band at odds with the mighty and the mad, with alchemists, Jesuits, great navies, pirate queens, and vengeful despots across vast oceans and arond the globe. Meanwhile, back in Europe. The equisite and resourceful Eliza, Countess de la Zeur, master of markets, pawn and confidante of enemy kings, one-time TDurkish harem virgin, is stripped of her immense personal fortuen by France's most dashing privateer. Penniless and at risk from those who desire either her or her head, she is caught up in a web of international intrigue, even as she desperately seeks the return of her most precious possession, her child. Large heavy book that may incur addtional shipping charges to some locations. . First Edition First Printing Stated. Hard Back. Very Good/Good. 6 1/2" X 9 1/2".