Quicksilver Reading CompanionBook 2: King of the Vagabonds
Jack Shaftoe, "Half-Cocked Jack," rescues Eliza from a Turkish harem at the siege of Vienna. Together they cross Europe, encountering Leibniz in the silver mines of the Harz mountains and the financial markets of Amsterdam.
18 chapters · 18 annotated
Book 2 shifts to new characters and new geography. Read the Before Book 2 primer for context.
Chapters
- p.339 London, Shaftoe — 1665 · 22 notes
- p.350 The Continent — Summer 1683 · 31 notes
- p.376 Erstwhile Camp of Grand Vizier Khan Mustapha — Sept 1683 · 30 notes
- p.390 Bohemia — Autumn 1683 · 33 notes
- p.403 Bohemia — Winter 1683-4 · 18 notes
- p.413 Leipzig — April 1684 · 32 notes
- p.430 Saxony — April 1684 · 32 notes
- p.450 Harz Mountains — Walpurgisnacht 1684 · 26 notes
- p.465 The Place, Amsterdam — Summer 1684 · 30 notes
- p.484 The Dutch Republic to Paris — 1684 · 47 notes
- p.502 Paris — Winter 1684-5 · 24 notes
- p.512 The Hague — Feb 1685 · 28 notes
- p.531 France — early 1685 · 19 notes
- p.544 Amsterdam — April 1685 · 25 notes
- p.558 Paris — Spring 1685 · 30 notes
- p.577 Amsterdam — 1685 · 17 notes
- p.587 Amsterdam — June 1685 · 16 notes
- p.599 Coast of Europe & North Africa — 1685 · 25 notes