Expedition to the Mountains of the Moon

Brief Description: Burton and Swinburne's third adventure is filled with eccentric steam-driven technology, grotesque characters, and bizarre events completing the trilogy begun in the Philip K. Dick award nominated novel, The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack. Publisher Marketing: It is 1870, and Albertian Britain is in the grip of conflicting forces. Engineers transform the landscape with bigger, faster, noisier and dirtier technological wonders; Eugenicists develop specialist animals to provide unpaid labour; Libertines oppose restrictive and unjust laws and flood the country with propaganda demanding a society based on beauty and creativity; while The Rakes push the boundaries of human behaviour to the limits with magic, sexuality, drugs and anarchy. Accompanied by the diminutive and pain-loving poet, Algernon Swinburne, Burton's latest mission in his role as King's Spy finds them dispatched to that most exotic and perilous of destinations: Africa. Review Citations:

Publishers Weekly 11/07/2011 pg. 55 (EAN 9781616145354, Paperback)

Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2011 (EAN 9781616145354, Paperback) - *Starred Review

Kirkus Best Fiction 11/15/2012 pg. 20 (EAN 9781616145354, Paperback)

Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2014 pg. 453 (EAN 9781616145354, Paperback)

Contributor Bio:  Hodder, Mark Biographie