The System of the World (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 3)
Series: Baroque Cycle (3)
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: September 6, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 892
ISBN-13: 9780060750862
Subjects: Historical - General; Political; General; American Historical Fiction; Suspense; Fiction - Historical; Newton, Isaac,; Fiction; History; Great Britain; Fiction / General; Sir,; 1603-1714, Stuarts; 1642-1727; Anne, 1702-1714
First sentence: "MEN HALF YOUR AGE and double your weight have been slain on these wastes by Extremity of Cold," said the Earl of Lostwithiel, Lord Warden of the Stannaries, and Rider of the Forest and Chase of Dartmoor, to one of his two fellow-travelers.