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In the entire year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves, including one "Half-Cocked Jack" Shaftoe, devises a daring intend to win flexibility and fortune. A great experience ensues that will place the intrepid group at probabilities with the mighty and the mad, with alchemists, Jesuits, great navies, pirate queens, and vengeful despots across huge oceans and around the globe.Back in European countries, the superb and resourceful Eliza, Countess de la Zeur, get better at of market segments, pawn and confidante of opponent kings, onetime Turkish harem virgin, is stripped of her immense personal fortune by France's most dashing privateer. Penniless and at risk from those who want either her or her head (or both), she is swept up in a web of international intrigue, even as she desperately seeks the return of her most treasured ownership -- her child.Meanwhile, Newton and Leibniz continue steadily to propound their grand theories as their infamous rivalry intensifies. And Daniel Waterhouse seeks passage to the Massachusetts colony hoping of escaping the madness into which his world has descended.The Baroque Circuit, Neal Stephenson's award-winning series, spans the late 17th and early 18th centuries, combining history, adventure, science, technology, piracy, and alchemy into one sweeping tale. It really is a gloriously abundant, amusing, and endlessly inventive historical epic filled by the likes of Isaac Newton, William of Orange, Benjamin Franklin, and Ruler Louis XIV, along with some of the most inventive literary heroes in modern fiction. Audible's complete and unabridged presentation of The Baroque Circuit was stated in assistance with Neal Stephenson. Each amount includes a special advantages read by the writer.
