Sea of Gears and Steam (Paperback)

Langue : anglais

Edité par Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

1533380740 / 9781533380746

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Paperback. It is the late 1800s and Devin MacArthur is growing to adulthood in the shadow of his inventor genius father. The great Cyrus MacArthur invented the Geoscope and is said to be the closest to finding a cure to the dreaded clanking consumption. This is a world powered by coal and steam, but coal has a dark side. Well, obviously coal has a dark side, but it has another one. Those who breathe in the ever present coal smog often begin to grow little mechanical insects and plants within their lungs. These mechanisms clank and they tick as they grow, and they slowly consume those that they grow within. England, that island floating in the skies over the eastern Atlantic Ocean, is the most powerful nation in the world and calls no nation her enemy. British naval ships use steam to sail upon the surface of the world's oceans keeping water ways shrouded in mist safe for British trading vessels. Her airships use sails to ply their ways from cloud bank to cloud bank. None would dare to Britannia an enemy, but if Britannia has no enemies who can she call an ally? Something sinister lurks within the seas upon which Queen Victoria's navy sails. The identity of this enemy is no mystery however. Naturalistic scientists and historians have long known of reclusive Atlantis. How could they not know when even airships need to touch water in order to let their Geoscopes listen to the ticking of the gears within the earth? Atlantis was bad enough, but now something else stalks within the mist filled skies over the Atlantic Ocean like a tiger looking to prey upon any ship found alone. The airships of Queen Victoria's navy are supposed to be the best in the world, and yet even some of them have vanished into the mists never to be heard from again. This is the ocean and this is the navy to which Devin MacArthur finds himself fighting to survive. He must literally learn the ropes when serving aboard one of Her Majesty's Battleships of the Line. Falling to one's death from the rigging or drowning are dangerous, but he quickly learns that the most dangerous thing that one can encounter aboard ship walks upon two legs. Aboard ship Devin meets Savannah Davis, a young American girl whose parents operate the ship's aetheroscope. The two then meet Feliciatas Bernath, who is forced into the role of diplomat when danger threatens the Austria-Hungarian Empire. Devin catches the eye of Savannah, but wonders if she is simply after his father's inventions. He also catches the eye of the lady Feliciatas, but what can an inventor's son offer to a foreign aristocrat. In his time plying this sea of gears and steam Devin will experience pain and joy, love and loss. He will bounce back from a personal disaster, but as more or less than he was before? This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Titre
Sea of Gears and Steam (Paperback)
Auteur
Dan Jager
Éditeur
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Année de publication
2016
État de l'article
new
Reliure
Paperback
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
1533380740
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9781533380746

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