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The Silk Merchant's Son
The Silk Merchant's Son
The Silk Merchant's Son
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In 1846, linguistics professor Fabrice Cleriquot is despatched from Lyon to the Swan River Colony, sent away with a box full of silkworms to stop him from bringing more disgrace upon the family. Accompanying him on board the Elizabeth are twenty-eight mismatched and misguided Catholic missionaries including Dom Salvado, who seeks to create a Spanish Benedictine monastery deep in the bush, and the Irish Sisters of Mercy, who are fleeing a dreadful famine.Given the job of distributing a huge donation from a wealthy benefactress, Fabrice bears witness to the folly of his travelling companions whose presumptuous attempts to rescue the colony and the original inhabitants from themselves, can only lead to tragedy.
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Release dateMay 2, 2023
ISBN9781760991685
The Silk Merchant's Son
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Peter Burke

His background includes many years in engineering design, development and management for major manufacturers of rotating equipment: Hamilton Sundstrand, Div. United Technology Corp., General Electric Gas Turbine, Sundstrand Corporation, KAESER Compressors and Worthington (Ingersoll Dresser) Pumps. During the last 25 years, Mr. Burke focused on consulting engineering and contributed to successful installations of dust collection systems, pumps and compressors, turbines, separators, scrubbers, field fabricated tanks, filtration systems and more. Projects ranged from minor retrofits to $60 million dollar “Greenfield” facilities and to $800 million dollar gas turbine power plant installations. Authored a number of technical articles. A partial list includes: “Intercoolers/Aftercoolers”, Chemical Engineering Magazine, “Ten Steps to Cost Savings” Plant Services Magazine, “Haz/Rad Wastewater pumping Solutions”, Pumps and Systems Magazine, “Piping Tie-in, the Basics”, Plant Services Magazine, “Avoiding Mistakes in Compressor Selection”, The 1990 Plant Engineering Yearbook.

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