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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Smith, Dominic, 1971-     Subjects     Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé, 1787-1851 -- Fiction.     Photographers -- France -- Fiction.     Mercury in the body -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Smith, Dominic, 1971-       by title:      The mercury visions ...         MARC Display

The mercury visions of Louis Daguerre : a novel / Dominic Smith. by Smith, Dominic, 1971- New York : ATRIA Books, 2006. Subjects Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé, 1787-1851 -- Fiction.   Photographers -- France -- Fiction.   Mercury in the body -- Fiction. ISBN:  0743271149 : Description:  306 p ; 23 cm. Edition:  1st ed. Requests:  0 Summary:  When the vision came, he was in the bathtub. So begins the madness of Louis Daguerre. In 1847, after a decade of using poisonous mercury vapors to cure his daguerreotype images, his mind is plagued by delusions. Believing the world will end within one year, Daguerre creates his "Doomsday List" -- ten items he must photograph before the final day. The list includes a portrait of Isobel Le Fournier, a woman he has always loved but not spoken to in half a century.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hilo Public Library Adult Fiction Smith Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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