The Lost Colony: A North-Western Story
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- Synopsis
- If the journey in Treasures of the Sun took these characters southeast on a route into the Underworld, then now, heading northwest, they seek nothing less than the Islands of the Blessed on this compelling adventure and spiritual odyssey. The year is 1934. Sir Wilbur Tennington, who in Treasures of the Sun led a successful 1922 expedition to find the lost Incan city of Haucha, has been living for several years in India, studying with a holy man and carefully reading the text of the Rig Veda. From this he comes to realize that the constellations repeatedly described therein can only be seen from the Arctic, and develops the conviction that the civilization that gave birth to the Rig Veda and had invaded what was to become Europe in the Third Millennium before Christ still exists and always has, north of Ellesmere Island in the Arctic Ocean. For what he regards as his last great quest, Sir Wilbur calls together the same group that accompanied him in the search for Haucha. Leaving by plane from San Francisco, they land at Point Barrow, the second northernmost point on the continent. From there they press northward, next by dogsled, across an Arctic desert of frigid sand and the Agassiz Ice Cap. To their consternation, they find they are not alone in the land where the Midnight Sun never sets ...
- Copyright:
- 1999
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 302 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780786215829
- Publisher:
- N/A
- Date of Addition:
- 02/03/05
- Copyrighted By:
- Golden West Literary Agency
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- James (Jim) Caldwell
- Proofread By:
- Joanie Vining
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.