Mother Shaftoe kept track of her boys' ages on her fingers, of which there were six. When she ran short of fingers -- that is, when Dick, the eldest and wisest, was nearing his seventh summer--she gathered the half-brothers together in her shack on the Isle of Dogs, and told them to be gone, and not to come back without bread or money.
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King of the Vagabonds
The Baroque Cycle #2
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A chronicle of the breathtaking exploits of "Half-Cocked Jack" Shaftoe -- London street urchin-turned-legendary swashbuckling adventurer -- risking life and limb for fortune and love while slowly maddening from the pox. . . and Eliza, rescued by Jack from a Turkish harem to become spy, confidante, and pawn of royals in order to reinvent a contentious continent through the newborn power of finance.
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historical fiction, Kings and rulers, Criminals, Scientists, Crimes against, Fiction, Counterfeiters, Succession, History, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, action & adventurePeople
Isaac Newton, Jack Shaftoe, Eliza, Mother Shaftoe, Dick ShafPlaces
Great Britain, London, Turkey, Isle of DogsTimes
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A chronicle of the breathtaking exploits of "Half-Cocked Jack" Shaftoe -- London street urchin-turned-legendary swashbuckling adventurer -- risking life and limb for fortune and love while slowly maddening from the pox. . . and Eliza, rescued by Jack from a Turkish harem to become spy, confidante, and pawn of royals in order to reinvent a contentious continent through the newborn power of finance.
--back cover
Also contained in Quicksilver: Volume One of The Baroque Cycle
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