<p>An astronomer challenges an emperor.<br>A hunter pursues the last dinosaur through a remote rainforest.<br>A young Kerryman emigrates to the Moon to seek his fortune.<br><br><br>These fifteen darkly funny stories illuminate a side of Irish literary history that is often overlooked. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the winds of change came rushing in Ireland's direction. Science and technology would transform everything: life, love, death, crime...