Whirlwind Alchemy (Paperback)

by Douglas W. Clark (Author)

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Corwyn, the world's only aquatic alchemist, travels to Spain to do battle with sinister windmills and the scurrilous author who penned a scandalous biography of him.

Product Details

• Paperback: 312 pages
• Publisher: Avon Books (Mm) (July 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0380763095
• ISBN-13: 978-0380763092
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 3.9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,930,488 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Don Who?, March 27, 2006

By	Khavrinen (Vancouver, WA United States) - See all my reviews

In the second volume of Douglas W. Clark's series about Corwyn the aquatic alchemist and his apprentice Sebastian ( "Rehearsal for a Renaissance" ), the story revolves around bits taken from the works of Shakespeare; in this, the third, he shifts his attention to "Don Quixote".

Previously a staunch supporter of the coming Renaissance, Corwyn is less than pleased when the drop in publishing costs caused by the introduction of the printing press results in a popular book that makes him look like a mad fool. "El Ingenioso Alquimista Don Corwyn de La Mancha", by Cid Hamete Benengeli, recounts the same events that happen in "Alchemy Unlimited", but they are slanted in the worst possible way, as though the author is purposely depicting him as a buffoon. Alternately enraged that Benengeli would dare slander him so, and depressed by how easily his neighbors accept the ridiculous lampooning of him as literal truth, Corwyn rushes off to Spain to try to put a stop to the publication. In his absence, he places Sebastian in charge of his college of alchemy, despite the obvious fact that several of them are just the sort of disruptive jerks that Sebastian was when he first arrived as Corwyn's apprentice.

Between the string of disasters that result from Sebastian's attempts to keep order among a class of obnoxious teenage boys and the trouble Corwyn gets into by continuing to use his own name when seemingly everyone in Spain has read of what a demented idiot "Don Corwyn" is, there's hardly time for them to notice the danger inching toward their village along a line of windmills being constructed under the auspices of the Inquisition.



From the back cover:
Tongues are wagging throughout the town of Pomme de Terre, concerning a scandalous new biography of Corwyn, the world's only aquatic alchemist. The lying tome portrays the venerable wizard as a fake -- and, worse, a witless, bumbling fool!

So the intrepid enchanter is off to Spain, to do battle with the sinister windmills, demon-filled wineskins...and the scurrilous author who besmirched his good name. But Corwyn's absence will inadvertently leave the safety of Pomme de Terre in the less-than-capable hands of his inept assistant Sebastian -- and at the mercy of the fiendish Hydro Phobius, who gleefully plots to unleash a plague of newly exorcised demons upon the unprotected community.


Don't miss the previous misadventures of Corwyn and Sebastian:
Alchemy Unlimited
Rehearsal for a Renaissance