Аннотация
Neal Stephenson
THE System OF THE WORLD
VOL. III of
THE BAROQUE CYCLE
To Mildred
Contents
The story thus far…
EPIGRAPH
BOOK SIX
Solomon’s Gold
BOOK SEVEN
Currency
BOOK EIGHT
The System of the World
EPILOGS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ALSO BY NEAL STEPHENSON
CREDITS
COPYRIGHT
ABOUT THE PUBLISHER
But first whom shall we send
In search of this new world, whom shall we find
Sufficient? Who shall tempt with wandring feet
The dark unbottom’d infinite Abyss
And through the palpable obscure find out
His uncouth way, or spread his aerie flight
Upborn with indefatigable wings
Over the vast abrupt, ere he arrive
The happy Ile…
MILTON, Paradise Lost
The story thus far…
In Boston in October 1713, Daniel Waterhouse, sixty-seven years of age, the Founder and sole Fellow of a fai...
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