Make secure your carriage-restraints, Reader…for the long-lost Philosopher’s Stone - that legendary alchemical key which can turn base metal into gold, grant immortality, and probably do your tax returns while you’re waiting - has turned up, in a city that might or might not quite be 1760s London, and suddenly everyone wants to get their hands on it! This is the Age of Enlightenment, after all - or something very similar - and we are in for a hectic ride as our faintly pompous but well-meaning hero Bart Riddle and his companions find themselves hurled headlong into a frenzied picaresque race to track it down, encountering bizarre incidents and larger-than-life characters aplenty along the way. It’s the eighteenth-century, Jim - but not as we know it!
Language
English
Pages
256
Format
Kindle Edition
Release
December 16, 2015
Transvectissimus: Or: In Pursuit of the Alchemick Grail
Make secure your carriage-restraints, Reader…for the long-lost Philosopher’s Stone - that legendary alchemical key which can turn base metal into gold, grant immortality, and probably do your tax returns while you’re waiting - has turned up, in a city that might or might not quite be 1760s London, and suddenly everyone wants to get their hands on it! This is the Age of Enlightenment, after all - or something very similar - and we are in for a hectic ride as our faintly pompous but well-meaning hero Bart Riddle and his companions find themselves hurled headlong into a frenzied picaresque race to track it down, encountering bizarre incidents and larger-than-life characters aplenty along the way. It’s the eighteenth-century, Jim - but not as we know it!