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The Coral Thief

Rebecca Stott

出版	Tantor Media, 2014-05-10
ISBN	14001933899781400193387
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=k__soQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

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In her virtuosic debut, "Ghostwalk," Rebecca Stott unfolded an extraordinary and true mystery involving Isaac Newton and set in seventeenth-century Cambridge. "The Coral Thief" is another intriguing mystery and love story, centering on pre-Darwinian theories of evolution and set in Paris right after Napoleon's surrender at Waterloo.
Upon his arrival in Paris, where he has come to study anatomy, Daniel Connor, a young medical student from Edinburgh, finds that his letters of introduction and precious coral specimens have been stolen by the beautiful woman with whom he shared a stagecoach. But when he begins searching for his lost items--and the alluring woman who stole them--Daniel is thrust into a tumultuous, underground world of philosopher thieves obsessed with the emerging theories of evolution. As he is pulled into their plot to steal a precious jewel from the Jardin des Plantes, and as he falls in love with the mysterious coral thief, Daniel is introduced to a radical theory of evolution that irrevocably changes his conception of the world in which he lives.
As riveting and beautifully rendered as "Ghostwalk," "The Coral Thief" is a provocative and tantalizing mix of history, love, and philosophy.