“Out there . . . on the hunt . . . my shaman will have known!” Wehakna was now visibly angry. “Is that so? My Shateh was the chieftain and shaman before war drew us from our land. In that war Cha-kwena was so strong in the power of the ...
This is John Gordon at his very best. Of John Gordon's highly first book, The Giant under the Snow, Alan Garner wrote: "He uses adrenalin for ink" and this quotation could be used as the hallmark for all Mr Gordon's books.
Kevin J. Anderson ... The old man coughed, spat out water, and ran trembling hands through his tangled gray beard. ... But the scent of blood and bodies had sent out a silent call in the sea, and sharp gray dorsal fins appeared among ...
Maybe it was just that we were on the edge of things , kind of like I felt years later in Canada , except that here we were on the opposite edge , the south coast of a southern continent , with nothing but ocean between us and ...
Featured in New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2015 Michael Pye's The Edge of the World is an epic adventure: from the Vikings to the Enlightenment, from barbaric outpost to global centre, it tells the amazing story of northern Europe's ...
In the third instalment of this brilliant fantasy series by Steven Lochran, readers are taken on a wild adventure through the kingdom of Thunder Realm.
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An epic adventure: from the Vikings to the Enlightenment, from barbaric outpost to global hub, this book tells the dazzling history of northern Europe's transformation by sea. 'Pye writes like a dream.
Terra Incognita - the blank spaces on the map, past the edge of the world, marked only by the words "here be monsters."Two nations at war, fighting for dominion over...
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It is a perilous undertaking, but there will always be the impetuous, the brave and the mad who are willing to leave their homes to explore the unknown. Even unto the edge of the world . . .