The System of the World Summary
Neal Stephenson

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The System of the World Summary

The System of the World begins where the first book of the Baroque Cycle trilogy, Quicksilver, concluded. Daniel Waterhouse, chancellor of the Massachusetts Colony Institute of Technical Studies and Arts, is returning to London from Boston aboard the ship Minerva. He has not been back long when an attempt is made on his life. The would-be assassins unsuccessfully use an infernal device, or time bomb and an exhaustive search for the...

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