This is the first book of a TRILOGY about an early 19-th century German physician, Dr. George Anton Schaeffer (1779-1836), who traveled widely around the world, becoming involved in Russian Tsar Alexander I's secret plan to kill Napoleon Bonaparte from a hydrogen-filled balloon, playing a role in the inter-island politics of King Kamehameha I's Hawaii, and organizing the transport of German mercenaries and colonists to Dom Pedro I's Brazil.