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Loading... The Bedlam Stacks (2017)by Natasha Pulley
   No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) cspiwak | Mar 6, 2024 |   ) calenmarwen | May 29, 2023 | Merrick Tremayne, former smuggler for the East India Company, travels to Peru to steal cinchona tree cuttings so that the British can make their own quinine in India. He and his friend Clem travel to Bedlam, a remote village where Merrick's grandfather and father had visited many times. It is a perilous joruney--surviving the Spanish, the Pervian quinine barons, the unusally cold summer, the high altitude, the unusual geography of Bedlam, and the local superstitions. Merrick is fascinated by one of the locals, Raphael, as well as the stone idols that guard the border between the town and the forest. Seems to treat Incan history and culture with respect and care. Makes me want to take up Andean weaving again. It's a decidedly happier adventure than Waugh's A Handful of Dust. (  ) tornadox | Feb 14, 2023 | A gardener for the India office in 1859 is sent to Peru to smuggle out cuttings of the trees that produce quinine, that grow high in the Andes. Noone has gone after them successfully yet, and many expeditionists lost their lives. But Murdock takes it on, as he will be financially ruined if the trip is not successful. He finds more than trees that yield quinine on this trip; he finds a magical world as delightful as the author's fertile imagination can make. Based off a true story, this historical fiction was so good that I looked up the author on Twitter and followed her (I have never done that before). ( ) burritapal | Oct 23, 2022 | ) mbmackay | Sep 13, 2022 | no reviews | add a review
Belongs to SeriesThe Watchmaker of Filigree Street (Prequel)
"In 1859, ex-East India Company smuggler Merrick Tremayne is trapped at home in Cornwall after sustaining an injury that almost cost him his leg. When the India Office recruits Merrick for an expedition to fetch quinine--essential for the treatment of malaria--from deep within Peru, he knows it's a terrible idea. Nearly every able-bodied expeditionary who's made the attempt has died, and he can barely walk. But Merrick is desperate to escape the strange events plaguing his family's crumbling estate, so he sets off, against his better judgment, for the edge of the Amazon. There he meets Raphael, a priest around whom the villagers spin unsettling stories of impossible disappearances, cursed woods, and living stone. Merrick must separate truth from fairytale and gradually realizes that Raphael is the key to a legacy left by generations of Tremayne explorers before him..."--Back cover. No library descriptions found. |
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