The Last Witchfinder

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In the spring of 1688, Walter Stearne, Witchfinder-General for Mercia and East Anglia, roams the countryside in search of heretics. His daughter Jennet is left behind in the care of her Aunt Isobel, who schools her in the New Philosophy expounded by Isaac Newton. But her aunt's style of scientific enquiry soon attracts the attention of witchfinders. To save her aunt, Jennet travels to Cambridge to seek the help of Newton himself. On the way, she meets Dr. Barnaby Cavendish and his 'Museum of Wondrous Prodigies' including the Bird-Child of Bath and the Sussex Rat baby. jennet's masterplan is ultimately doomed, but in Isobel's dying moments, Jennet agrees to devote her life to overturning the Parliamentary Witchcraft Act. it is a task that will lead her on picaresque adventures: to the witch trials of Salem; to capture by Algonquin Indians; to an affair with Benjamin Franklin; to a shipwreck; and to the great final showdown between old superstition and new science. *Yellowed pages*
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AuthorJames Morrow
PublisherOrion Publishing Group
PlaceLondon
Year2006
ISBN9780297852599
BindingHardcover
ConditionGood
Dustjacket ConditionGood
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