Posts Tagged ‘fantasy series’
The Farthest Shore – Reviewing Classics
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The Farthest Shore (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 3)
Atheneum Books, 1972
Fantasy
ISBN: 141650964X
272 Pages
Atheneum Books, 1972
Fantasy
ISBN: 141650964X
272 Pages
Synopsis
Magic is disappearing from the outer edges of the world of Earth Sea, and it’s soon apparent that a great darkness is overtaking the land. People are hurtled into hopeless and despair, and many are losing their lives in consecutive drug trips where they seek to find the master who can grant eternal life, only to soon die from brain damage and starvation. …
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Once Upon a Time in the North
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Once Upon a Time in the North (His Dark Materials, companion novel)
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2008
Fantasy Fiction
ISBN: 0375845100
112 pages
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2008
Fantasy Fiction
ISBN: 0375845100
112 pages
Synopsis
In his younger years that we’ve seen him previously in the His Dark Materials trilogy, aeronaut Lee Scoresby is a young adventurer ready to take on the world. He’s just won his balloon in a card match, and he takes it wherever the wind blows. These particular winds land him in the Arctic, on a secluded island known as Novy Odense. …
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