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Información de la obraThe Bedlam Stacks por Natasha Pulley (2017)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Good, though I didn’t enjoy it as much as watchmaker. I felt the lack of female characters. Know it was a jungle explorer book at a time when women would not have been part of the scene, but the story focused so much on the two men, felt a bit claustrophobic to me. Not enough about animals, though I did enjoy the couple of odd creatures that were included. Plot seemed, oddly, predictable to me, knew very early on where it was going. Still lovely though ( ) Set in the Watchmaker of Filigree Street world. Keita Mori does make an appearance. Merrick Tremayne, former smuggler for the East India Company, travels to Peru to steal cinchona tree cuttings so that the British can make their own quinine in India. He and his friend Clem travel to Bedlam, a remote village where Merrick's grandfather and father had visited many times. It is a perilous joruney--surviving the Spanish, the Pervian quinine barons, the unusally cold summer, the high altitude, the unusual geography of Bedlam, and the local superstitions. Merrick is fascinated by one of the locals, Raphael, as well as the stone idols that guard the border between the town and the forest. Seems to treat Incan history and culture with respect and care. Makes me want to take up Andean weaving again. It's a decidedly happier adventure than Waugh's A Handful of Dust. I fell in love with the world created by Pulley, and now that I finished the book, I'm bummed because there is no more. A gardener for the India office in 1859 is sent to Peru to smuggle out cuttings of the trees that produce quinine, that grow high in the Andes. Noone has gone after them successfully yet, and many expeditionists lost their lives. But Murdock takes it on, as he will be financially ruined if the trip is not successful. He finds more than trees that yield quinine on this trip; he finds a magical world as delightful as the author's fertile imagination can make. Based off a true story, this historical fiction was so good that I looked up the author on Twitter and followed her (I have never done that before). My third Natasha Pulley book (after Watchmaker of Filigree St and the Kingdoms), and my favourite so far. Who would have ever thought of historical fantasy fiction as a genre? But this book pulls it off - plenty of "real" historical background to a fictional tale with a little bit of fantasy thrown in. Good characters, well drawn provide the backbone and the history is interesting and factual, without being overbearing. I enjoyed it immensely. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"In 1859, ex-East India Company smuggler Merrick Tremayne is trapped at home in Cornwall after sustaining an injury that almost cost him his leg. When the India Office recruits Merrick for an expedition to fetch quinine--essential for the treatment of malaria--from deep within Peru, he knows it's a terrible idea. Nearly every able-bodied expeditionary who's made the attempt has died, and he can barely walk. But Merrick is desperate to escape the strange events plaguing his family's crumbling estate, so he sets off, against his better judgment, for the edge of the Amazon. There he meets Raphael, a priest around whom the villagers spin unsettling stories of impossible disappearances, cursed woods, and living stone. Merrick must separate truth from fairytale and gradually realizes that Raphael is the key to a legacy left by generations of Tremayne explorers before him..."--Back cover. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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