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A hugely engaging adventure set
in a Victorian-style world - a fantastical
version of Dickens - that will appeal to
fans of Susanna Clarke and Philip Pullman.
Professor Amelia Harsh is obsessed with
finding the lost civilization of Camlantis,
a legendary city from pre-history that is
said to have conquered hunger, war and disease
with the creation of a perfect pacifist
society.
But when she returns home to Jackals from
her latest archaeological misadventure she
finds that the university council has stripped
her of her position in retaliation for her
heretical research.
Without official funding, Amelia has no
choice but to accept the offer of patronage
from the man she blames for her father's
bankruptcy and suicide, the fiercely intelligent
Abraham Quest. He has found evidence that
suggests the Camlantean ruins are buried
under one of the sea-like lakes that dot
the murderous jungles of Liongeli.
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Hardcover:
592 pages
Publisher: HarperCollins Voyager
Publication date: 6th May 2008
ISBN: 0007232209
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Amelia undertakes an expedition deep into
the dark heart of the jungle, blackmailing
her old friend Commodore Black into ferrying
her across the huge river of the Shedarkshe
in his ancient u-boat.
With an untrustworthy crew of freed convicts,
Quest's force of fiercesome female mercenaries
on board and a lunatic steamman safari hunter
acting as their guide, Amelia's luck seems
to be going from bad to worse. And she's
as yet unaware that her quest for the perfect
society is about to bring her own world
to the brink of destruction...
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