Contents

Map

Dedication

Invocation

BOOK ONE Quicksilver

Boston Common

1655

Newtowne, Massachusetts Bay Colony

College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, Cambridge

Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony

College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, Cambridge

Aboard Minerva, Massachusetts Bay

College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, Cambridge

Aboard Minerva, Massachusetts Bay

Banks of the River Cam

Aboard Minerva, off the Coast of New England

The Plague Year

Epsom

Aboard Minerva, Plymouth Bay, Massachusetts

Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire

Aboard Minerva, Plymouth Bay, Massachusetts

Charing Cross

Royal Society Meeting, Gresham’s College

Aboard Minerva, Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts

Gresham’s College, Bishopsgate, London

College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, Cambridge

London Bridge

Aboard Minerva, Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts

Royal Society Meeting, Gunfleet House

Aboard Minerva, Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts

The City of London

Aboard Minerva, Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts

BOOK TWO King of the Vagabonds

The Mud Below London

The Continent

Erstwhile Camp of Grand Vizier Khan Mustapha

Bohemia

Bohemia

Leipzig

Saxony

The Harz Mountains

The Place

The Dutch Republic

Paris

The Hague

France

Amsterdam

Paris

Amsterdam

Amsterdam

Coast of Europe and of Northern Africa

BOOK THREE Odalisque

Whitehall Palace

Versailles

London

Beach North of Scheveningen

Dorset

The Exchange [Between Threadneedle and Cornhill]

Versailles

Bank of Het Kanaal, Between Scheveningen and the Hague

Versailles

The Star Chamber, Westminster Palace

Versailles

Tower of London

Château Juvisy

St. Cloud

Rossignol to Louis XIV Continued

French Embassy, the Hague

Rossignol to Louis XIV Continued

Rossignol to Louis XIV Continued

Sheerness, England

Venice

The Hague

Bishopsgate

Dramatis Personae

Acknowledgments