Chapters 23 to 25 are all called "The Book of the Machines," and Chapter 15, "The Musical Banks", discusses how banks would not honor other banks' coins and how churches would often complete money exchanges.
In the first edition of this book, the preface mentions that the title is to be pronounced with three syllables. Chapters 23 to 25 are all called "The Book of the Machines," and Chapter 15, "The Musical Banks", discusses how banks would not honor other banks' coins and how churches would often complete money exchanges. The entire country where this occurs becomes a satire of Victorian society and its geographic features are modeled loosely after New Zealand. Higgs is the narrator of, fo 10 points, what 1872 novel by Samuel Butler, where names are both anagrams and spelt backwards, such as its original title, "Nowhere"?
In the first edition of this book, the preface mentions that the title is to be pronounced with three syllables.
Erewhon; or Over the Range