Author: Frank Graves
Publisher: Frajil Publishing
ISBN: 9781873133019
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
"Harry Potter," "Lord of the Rings," "Lion, Witch & the Wardrobe" Looking for something else TOTALLY UNIQUE" to read? Let your mind run riot with this Epic Trilogy of Myths, Magic and Monsters stories. Now out in Kindle and Printed Book Format. The Ancestral Trail Trilogy has it all and guarantees that "different story" without even a Dragon, or a Werewolf anywhere in sight. The Ancestral Trail was first published in beautifully pictured set of magazine format in 1993. (The complete readable history on the same stories and also shows those fantastic drawings - Google www.theancestraltrail.com). The three books in the trilogy are: - 1) Long Ago & Far Away (Ancient World) 2) New Time & Time Again (Cyber World) 3) Once Upon a Time & Time Again (Today World) The Ancestral Trail Trilogy is the proper book of the first set of stories in a three-book format now being published. It tells the story of a boy that is suddenly plucked from his home world and sent to a new place, known as the Ancestral World. There, he learns that he is The Chosen One, appointed to save this world of mythical beasts from a great evil being known simply as The Evil One. A pig-like soldier and an intellectual waif-like female scribe throughout the journey ably accompany the boy to the first of three totally different worlds, the Ancient World, Cyber World and Modern Day World of Today Said Evil One has already conquered the Ancestral World by stealing six pods from the "Tree Of Life" and imprisoning six Ancestral Guardians. Since the beginning of time, creatures of the air, land and water have lived in peace in the Ancestral World. Landsmen, common beasts, birds and fishes have dwelt in harmony with insects, reptiles and mythical beasts. Ruled with fairness and wisdom by the Council of Guardians, they have known neither suffering nor the ravages of war. Now an evil spirit has come to this land and is laying waste to all that is good. The Forces of Evil have gained ground fast and many of these peaceful creatures have been killed or have fallen under the Evil One's power. The Life Force of the Ancestral World is almost at an end.
The Ancestral Trail
Author: Frank Graves
Publisher: Frajil Publishing
ISBN: 9781873133019
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
"Harry Potter," "Lord of the Rings," "Lion, Witch & the Wardrobe" Looking for something else TOTALLY UNIQUE" to read? Let your mind run riot with this Epic Trilogy of Myths, Magic and Monsters stories. Now out in Kindle and Printed Book Format. The Ancestral Trail Trilogy has it all and guarantees that "different story" without even a Dragon, or a Werewolf anywhere in sight. The Ancestral Trail was first published in beautifully pictured set of magazine format in 1993. (The complete readable history on the same stories and also shows those fantastic drawings - Google www.theancestraltrail.com). The three books in the trilogy are: - 1) Long Ago & Far Away (Ancient World) 2) New Time & Time Again (Cyber World) 3) Once Upon a Time & Time Again (Today World) The Ancestral Trail Trilogy is the proper book of the first set of stories in a three-book format now being published. It tells the story of a boy that is suddenly plucked from his home world and sent to a new place, known as the Ancestral World. There, he learns that he is The Chosen One, appointed to save this world of mythical beasts from a great evil being known simply as The Evil One. A pig-like soldier and an intellectual waif-like female scribe throughout the journey ably accompany the boy to the first of three totally different worlds, the Ancient World, Cyber World and Modern Day World of Today Said Evil One has already conquered the Ancestral World by stealing six pods from the "Tree Of Life" and imprisoning six Ancestral Guardians. Since the beginning of time, creatures of the air, land and water have lived in peace in the Ancestral World. Landsmen, common beasts, birds and fishes have dwelt in harmony with insects, reptiles and mythical beasts. Ruled with fairness and wisdom by the Council of Guardians, they have known neither suffering nor the ravages of war. Now an evil spirit has come to this land and is laying waste to all that is good. The Forces of Evil have gained ground fast and many of these peaceful creatures have been killed or have fallen under the Evil One's power. The Life Force of the Ancestral World is almost at an end.
Publisher: Frajil Publishing
ISBN: 9781873133019
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
"Harry Potter," "Lord of the Rings," "Lion, Witch & the Wardrobe" Looking for something else TOTALLY UNIQUE" to read? Let your mind run riot with this Epic Trilogy of Myths, Magic and Monsters stories. Now out in Kindle and Printed Book Format. The Ancestral Trail Trilogy has it all and guarantees that "different story" without even a Dragon, or a Werewolf anywhere in sight. The Ancestral Trail was first published in beautifully pictured set of magazine format in 1993. (The complete readable history on the same stories and also shows those fantastic drawings - Google www.theancestraltrail.com). The three books in the trilogy are: - 1) Long Ago & Far Away (Ancient World) 2) New Time & Time Again (Cyber World) 3) Once Upon a Time & Time Again (Today World) The Ancestral Trail Trilogy is the proper book of the first set of stories in a three-book format now being published. It tells the story of a boy that is suddenly plucked from his home world and sent to a new place, known as the Ancestral World. There, he learns that he is The Chosen One, appointed to save this world of mythical beasts from a great evil being known simply as The Evil One. A pig-like soldier and an intellectual waif-like female scribe throughout the journey ably accompany the boy to the first of three totally different worlds, the Ancient World, Cyber World and Modern Day World of Today Said Evil One has already conquered the Ancestral World by stealing six pods from the "Tree Of Life" and imprisoning six Ancestral Guardians. Since the beginning of time, creatures of the air, land and water have lived in peace in the Ancestral World. Landsmen, common beasts, birds and fishes have dwelt in harmony with insects, reptiles and mythical beasts. Ruled with fairness and wisdom by the Council of Guardians, they have known neither suffering nor the ravages of war. Now an evil spirit has come to this land and is laying waste to all that is good. The Forces of Evil have gained ground fast and many of these peaceful creatures have been killed or have fallen under the Evil One's power. The Life Force of the Ancestral World is almost at an end.
The Ancestral Trail - Once Upon & Time Again
Author: Frank Graves
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781873133033
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Ancestral Trail Trilogy: The Exponential World Once Upon & Time Again: Book 3 Target Market: Young Adults While the Present Day World is busily tweeting, texting and spending, it is also drifting towards a despairing disaster at the insatiable techno consumerism that echoes the apocalyptic essays of all satirists. This world has now substantially changed. The 'Evil One' has arrived; driving greed to create War, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Population Explosion and Temperature Rises The Present Day World is under siege, fast destroying itself. And the Internet been destroyed and fighting is worldwide Evil is everywhere to be found... Action to prevent a catastrophe must start somewhere
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781873133033
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Ancestral Trail Trilogy: The Exponential World Once Upon & Time Again: Book 3 Target Market: Young Adults While the Present Day World is busily tweeting, texting and spending, it is also drifting towards a despairing disaster at the insatiable techno consumerism that echoes the apocalyptic essays of all satirists. This world has now substantially changed. The 'Evil One' has arrived; driving greed to create War, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Population Explosion and Temperature Rises The Present Day World is under siege, fast destroying itself. And the Internet been destroyed and fighting is worldwide Evil is everywhere to be found... Action to prevent a catastrophe must start somewhere
On the Ancestral Trail
Author: Herbert C. Nelson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prentice (Wis.)
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prentice (Wis.)
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Ancestral Trail - Book 1
Author: Frank Graves
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781873133125
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Since the beginning of time, creatures of the air, land and water have lived in peace in the Ancestral World. Landsmen, common beasts, birds and fishes have dwelt in harmony with insects, reptiles and mythical beasts. Ruled with fairness and wisdom by the Council of Guardians, they have known neither suffering nor the ravages of war. Now an evil spirit has come to this land and is laying waste to all that is good. The Forces of Evil have gained ground fast and many of these peaceful creatures have been killed or have fallen under the Evil One's power. The Life Force of the Ancestral World is almost at an end. Frank Graves is an author and film producer raised in South Africa and is the great grandson of Sir Thomas Maclear named as one of the foremost royal astronomers at the Cape of Good Hope. He is also distantly related to Robert Graves the renowned writer and poet who was a large inspiration for Frank to eventually take up writing. Robert Graves encouraged Frank to start writing with several correspondence letters and stories while still a boy at school. His first published work was published in 1989 was a fictional political thriller named African Chess (Now revamped, updated and republished in March 2014). African Chess was loosely based on his South African upbringing and the then apartheid system in place before Nelson Mandela's release from prison or his death. His next major work published by Marshall Cavendish in 1992 was an epic 832 page "The Ancestral Trail" was 'split' into two halves of 26 issues each, making a total of 52 issues in total, all contained consecutive page and issue numbers. The first half, published fortnightly throughout 1993, takes place within a mythological 'Ancestral World' that describes a boy's struggle to restore good to these worlds. After the initial international run that sold over 30 million copies worldwide, the second half of that series was then created and was published in 1994 and took place in the totally different 'Cyber Dimension' all about the same boy's attempt to find a way back to his own world. Graves has now updated and re-written the full "Ancestral Trail Trilogy" in the form of three major novels. In January 2014, the first section covering a journey through an 'Ancient World' within "The Ancestral Trail Trilogy" named "Long Ago & Far Away" in a 450-page novel was published. The next novel is the second continuing section of the trilogy that covers a 'Cyber World' published in November 2014 and the third section of the trilogy, covering our 'Exponential World' published in mid 2017.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781873133125
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Since the beginning of time, creatures of the air, land and water have lived in peace in the Ancestral World. Landsmen, common beasts, birds and fishes have dwelt in harmony with insects, reptiles and mythical beasts. Ruled with fairness and wisdom by the Council of Guardians, they have known neither suffering nor the ravages of war. Now an evil spirit has come to this land and is laying waste to all that is good. The Forces of Evil have gained ground fast and many of these peaceful creatures have been killed or have fallen under the Evil One's power. The Life Force of the Ancestral World is almost at an end. Frank Graves is an author and film producer raised in South Africa and is the great grandson of Sir Thomas Maclear named as one of the foremost royal astronomers at the Cape of Good Hope. He is also distantly related to Robert Graves the renowned writer and poet who was a large inspiration for Frank to eventually take up writing. Robert Graves encouraged Frank to start writing with several correspondence letters and stories while still a boy at school. His first published work was published in 1989 was a fictional political thriller named African Chess (Now revamped, updated and republished in March 2014). African Chess was loosely based on his South African upbringing and the then apartheid system in place before Nelson Mandela's release from prison or his death. His next major work published by Marshall Cavendish in 1992 was an epic 832 page "The Ancestral Trail" was 'split' into two halves of 26 issues each, making a total of 52 issues in total, all contained consecutive page and issue numbers. The first half, published fortnightly throughout 1993, takes place within a mythological 'Ancestral World' that describes a boy's struggle to restore good to these worlds. After the initial international run that sold over 30 million copies worldwide, the second half of that series was then created and was published in 1994 and took place in the totally different 'Cyber Dimension' all about the same boy's attempt to find a way back to his own world. Graves has now updated and re-written the full "Ancestral Trail Trilogy" in the form of three major novels. In January 2014, the first section covering a journey through an 'Ancient World' within "The Ancestral Trail Trilogy" named "Long Ago & Far Away" in a 450-page novel was published. The next novel is the second continuing section of the trilogy that covers a 'Cyber World' published in November 2014 and the third section of the trilogy, covering our 'Exponential World' published in mid 2017.
A Land Remembered
Author: Patrick D Smith
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1561645826
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
A Land Remembered has become Florida's favorite novel. Now this Student Edition in two volumes makes this rich, rugged story of the American pioneer spirit more accessible to young readers. Patrick Smith tells of three generations of the MacIveys, a Florida family battling the hardships of the frontier. The story opens in 1858, when Tobias and Emma MacIvey arrive in the Florida wilderness with their son, Zech, to start a new life, and ends in 1968 with Solomon MacIvey, who realizes that his wealth has not been worth the cost to the land. Between is a sweeping story rich in Florida history with a cast of memorable characters who battle wild animals, rustlers, Confederate deserters, mosquitoes, starvation, hurricanes, and freezes to carve a kingdom out of the Florida swamp. In this volume, meet young Zech MacIvey, who learns to ride like the wind through the Florida scrub on Ishmael, his marshtackie horse, his dogs, Nip and Tuck, at this side. His parents, Tobias and Emma, scratch a living from the land, gathering wild cows from the swamp and herding them across the state to market. Zech learns the ways of the land from the Seminoles, with whom his life becomes entwined as he grows into manhood. Next in series > > See all of the books in this series
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1561645826
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
A Land Remembered has become Florida's favorite novel. Now this Student Edition in two volumes makes this rich, rugged story of the American pioneer spirit more accessible to young readers. Patrick Smith tells of three generations of the MacIveys, a Florida family battling the hardships of the frontier. The story opens in 1858, when Tobias and Emma MacIvey arrive in the Florida wilderness with their son, Zech, to start a new life, and ends in 1968 with Solomon MacIvey, who realizes that his wealth has not been worth the cost to the land. Between is a sweeping story rich in Florida history with a cast of memorable characters who battle wild animals, rustlers, Confederate deserters, mosquitoes, starvation, hurricanes, and freezes to carve a kingdom out of the Florida swamp. In this volume, meet young Zech MacIvey, who learns to ride like the wind through the Florida scrub on Ishmael, his marshtackie horse, his dogs, Nip and Tuck, at this side. His parents, Tobias and Emma, scratch a living from the land, gathering wild cows from the swamp and herding them across the state to market. Zech learns the ways of the land from the Seminoles, with whom his life becomes entwined as he grows into manhood. Next in series > > See all of the books in this series
Reading Aridity in Western American Literature
Author: Jada Ach
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1793622027
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
In literary and cinematic representations, deserts often betoken collapse and dystopia. Reading Aridity in Western American Literature offers readings of literature set in the American Southwest from ecocritical and new materialist perspectives. This book explores the diverse epistemologies, histories, relationships, futures, and possibilities that emerge from the representation of American deserts in fiction, film, and literary art, and traces the social, cultural, economic, and biotic narratives that foreground deserts, prompting us to reconsider new, provocative modes of human/nonhuman engagement in arid ecogeographies.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1793622027
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
In literary and cinematic representations, deserts often betoken collapse and dystopia. Reading Aridity in Western American Literature offers readings of literature set in the American Southwest from ecocritical and new materialist perspectives. This book explores the diverse epistemologies, histories, relationships, futures, and possibilities that emerge from the representation of American deserts in fiction, film, and literary art, and traces the social, cultural, economic, and biotic narratives that foreground deserts, prompting us to reconsider new, provocative modes of human/nonhuman engagement in arid ecogeographies.
Wish I'd Known You Tears Ago
Author: Stephen A. Bly
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
ISBN: 080543173X
Category : Christian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Indiana schoolteacher Develyn Worrell is ready to savor summer's end in a cozy Wyoming town from her childhood. Then a series of random troublesome events resets the pace.
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
ISBN: 080543173X
Category : Christian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Indiana schoolteacher Develyn Worrell is ready to savor summer's end in a cozy Wyoming town from her childhood. Then a series of random troublesome events resets the pace.
Aerial Geology
Author: Mary Caperton Morton
Publisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 1604697628
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
“Get your head into the clouds with Aerial Geology.” —The New York Times Book Review Aerial Geology is an up-in-the-sky exploration of North America’s 100 most spectacular geological formations. Crisscrossing the continent from the Aleutian Islands in Alaska to the Great Salt Lake in Utah and to the Chicxulub Crater in Mexico, Mary Caperton Morton brings you on a fantastic tour, sharing aerial and satellite photography, explanations on how each site was formed, and details on what makes each landform noteworthy. Maps and diagrams help illustrate the geological processes and clarify scientific concepts. Fact-filled, curious, and way more fun than the geology you remember from grade school, Aerial Geology is a must-have for the insatiably curious, armchair geologists, million-mile travelers, and anyone who has stared out the window of a plane and wondered what was below.
Publisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 1604697628
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
“Get your head into the clouds with Aerial Geology.” —The New York Times Book Review Aerial Geology is an up-in-the-sky exploration of North America’s 100 most spectacular geological formations. Crisscrossing the continent from the Aleutian Islands in Alaska to the Great Salt Lake in Utah and to the Chicxulub Crater in Mexico, Mary Caperton Morton brings you on a fantastic tour, sharing aerial and satellite photography, explanations on how each site was formed, and details on what makes each landform noteworthy. Maps and diagrams help illustrate the geological processes and clarify scientific concepts. Fact-filled, curious, and way more fun than the geology you remember from grade school, Aerial Geology is a must-have for the insatiably curious, armchair geologists, million-mile travelers, and anyone who has stared out the window of a plane and wondered what was below.
Country Girl
Author: Edna O'Brien
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316230367
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
"Country Girl is Edna O'Brien's exquisite account of her dashing, barrier-busting, up-and-down life."-National Public Radio When Edna O'Brien's first novel, The Country Girls, was published in 1960, it so scandalized the O'Briens' local parish that the book was burned by its priest. O'Brien was undeterred and has since created a body of work that bears comparison with the best writing of the twentieth century. Country Girl brings us face-to-face with a life of high drama and contemplation. Starting with O'Brien's birth in a grand but deteriorating house in Ireland, her story moves through convent school to elopement, divorce, single-motherhood, the wild parties of the '60s in London, and encounters with Hollywood giants, pop stars, and literary titans. There is love and unrequited love, and the glamour of trips to America as a celebrated writer and the guest of Jackie Onassis and Hillary Clinton. Country Girl is a rich and heady accounting of the events, people, emotions, and landscape that have imprinted upon and enhanced one lifetime.
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316230367
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
"Country Girl is Edna O'Brien's exquisite account of her dashing, barrier-busting, up-and-down life."-National Public Radio When Edna O'Brien's first novel, The Country Girls, was published in 1960, it so scandalized the O'Briens' local parish that the book was burned by its priest. O'Brien was undeterred and has since created a body of work that bears comparison with the best writing of the twentieth century. Country Girl brings us face-to-face with a life of high drama and contemplation. Starting with O'Brien's birth in a grand but deteriorating house in Ireland, her story moves through convent school to elopement, divorce, single-motherhood, the wild parties of the '60s in London, and encounters with Hollywood giants, pop stars, and literary titans. There is love and unrequited love, and the glamour of trips to America as a celebrated writer and the guest of Jackie Onassis and Hillary Clinton. Country Girl is a rich and heady accounting of the events, people, emotions, and landscape that have imprinted upon and enhanced one lifetime.
Three Junes
Author: Julia Glass
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0375422420
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An astonishing novel that traces the lives of a Scottish family over a decade as they confront the joys and longings, fulfillments and betrayals of love in all its guises. In June of 1989 Paul McLeod, a newspaper publisher and recent widower, travels to Greece, where he falls for a young American artist and reflects on the complicated truth about his marriage.... Six years later, again in June, Paul’s death draws his three grown sons and their families back to their ancestral home. Fenno, the eldest, a wry, introspective gay man, narrates the events of this unforeseen reunion. Far from his straitlaced expatriate life as a bookseller in Greenwich Village, Fenno is stunned by a series of revelations that threaten his carefully crafted defenses.... Four years farther on, in yet another June, a chance meeting on the Long Island shore brings Fenno together with Fern Olitsky, the artist who once captivated his father. Now pregnant, Fern must weigh her guilt about the past against her wishes for the future and decide what family means to her. In prose rich with compassion and wit, Three Junes paints a haunting portrait of love’s redemptive powers.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0375422420
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An astonishing novel that traces the lives of a Scottish family over a decade as they confront the joys and longings, fulfillments and betrayals of love in all its guises. In June of 1989 Paul McLeod, a newspaper publisher and recent widower, travels to Greece, where he falls for a young American artist and reflects on the complicated truth about his marriage.... Six years later, again in June, Paul’s death draws his three grown sons and their families back to their ancestral home. Fenno, the eldest, a wry, introspective gay man, narrates the events of this unforeseen reunion. Far from his straitlaced expatriate life as a bookseller in Greenwich Village, Fenno is stunned by a series of revelations that threaten his carefully crafted defenses.... Four years farther on, in yet another June, a chance meeting on the Long Island shore brings Fenno together with Fern Olitsky, the artist who once captivated his father. Now pregnant, Fern must weigh her guilt about the past against her wishes for the future and decide what family means to her. In prose rich with compassion and wit, Three Junes paints a haunting portrait of love’s redemptive powers.