num_pages: 224
description: Paris 1815. Napoleon has just surrendered at Waterloo and is on his way to the island of St. Helena to begin his exile. Meanwhile Daniel Connor a young medical student from Edinburgh has just arrived in Paris to study anatomy at the Jardin des Plantesonly to realize that his letters of introduction and a gift of precious coral specimens on which his tenure with the legendary Dr. Cuvier depends have been stolen by the beautiful woman with whom he shared a stagecoach.In the fervor and tumult of post revolutionary Paris nothing is quite as it seems. In trying to recover his lost valuables Daniel discovers that his beautiful adversary is in fact a philosopher-thief who lives in a shadowy world of outlaws and migrs. Daniels fall into this underworld is also a flight for as he falls in love with the mysterious coral thief and she draws him into an audacious plot that will leave him with a future very different from the one he has envisioned for himself Daniel discovers a radical theory of evolution and mutability that irrevocably changes his conception of the world in which he lives.
language: English
title: The Coral Thief
publisher: Spiegel & Grau