| Title : | The Technologists | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Matthew Pearl, Author | | Publisher: | London [United Kingdom] : Vintage | | Publication Date: | 2012 | | Pagination: | 555 p. | | Size: | 20 cm | | ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-09-951276-9 | | Class number: | 813.6 | | Abstract: | Spring 1868, and the population of Boston is being terrorised by a series of mysterious attacks: first a magnetic storm causes ships in the harbour to collide in flames, then in another bizarre catastrophe every piece of glass in the financial district spontaneously melts - clocks, windows, eyeglasses. The city's fate relies on four young students: Civil War veteran Marcus Mansfield, brash Bob Richards, meticulous Edwin Hoyt and the eccentric but brilliant Ellen Swallow. Together, they are the Technologists. In a climate of rising hysteria, these four courageous individuals must unite against the forces of darkness to uncover the mastermin | | Contents note: | The acclaimed author of The Dante Club, Matthew Pearl's novel transports readers to tumultuous nineteenth-century Boston, where the word "technology" represents a bold and frightening new concept. The fight for the future will hinge on... |
The Technologists [printed text] / Matthew Pearl, Author . - London (Random House, 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road, Sw1V2SA, United Kingdom) : Vintage, 2012 . - 555 p. ; 20 cm. ISBN : 978-0-09-951276-9 | Class number: | 813.6 | | Abstract: | Spring 1868, and the population of Boston is being terrorised by a series of mysterious attacks: first a magnetic storm causes ships in the harbour to collide in flames, then in another bizarre catastrophe every piece of glass in the financial district spontaneously melts - clocks, windows, eyeglasses. The city's fate relies on four young students: Civil War veteran Marcus Mansfield, brash Bob Richards, meticulous Edwin Hoyt and the eccentric but brilliant Ellen Swallow. Together, they are the Technologists. In a climate of rising hysteria, these four courageous individuals must unite against the forces of darkness to uncover the mastermin | | Contents note: | The acclaimed author of The Dante Club, Matthew Pearl's novel transports readers to tumultuous nineteenth-century Boston, where the word "technology" represents a bold and frightening new concept. The fight for the future will hinge on... |
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