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The Many Coloured Land The Golden Torc
Jullian May
Manufacturer: -pan
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000G8JS68

The Many-coloured Land (The Saga of the Exiles)

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Tanu, Firvulag & Humans Disputing the Pliocene!

The Many-coloured Land (The Saga of the Exiles)
Julian May
Manufacturer: Tor
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Tanu, Firvulag & Humans Disputing the Pliocene!.......2006-10-23

Ms. May (b. 1931) started her writer career in the early `50s writing two sci-fi short stories. Immediately she changed to writing scientific articles, YA and children literature.
In 1981 she made a dramatic return to sci-fi genre with this book, starting the Pliocene Exile Saga, earning the Locus Award.

The author greatly profit from her scientific background. The descriptions of Pliocene fauna, flora and geography are minutely accurate. Whatever technical subject is used into the story is consistently and believably described: mining, sailing, astronomical orientation, weapon making or hunting.
Does this make the novel boring? By no means! Julian is a wonderful writer and introduces all this stuff with a colorful prose giving substance and deepness to the story.

As to start the tale with sure hand, Ms. May set up every character depicting its entourage, rising, motivations, draw-backs and virtues. Then, with all this neatly tied, she launches the whole bunch into a non-stop adventure in the Pliocene.
You'll be really delighted by this mixture of strange landscape & fauna with alien dimorphic species: Tanu & Firvulag. You'll find people with extraordinary meta-functions active or latent, allying or fending with aliens & kin.
The narration is very straightforward, interesting and never let you down.
In this first volume of the quartet the author close the story very neatly but at the same time leaves enough loose threads as to keep you wanting for more.
Fortunately there IS more to come!
Reviewed by Max

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The Many-coloured Land
C.J. Koch
Manufacturer: Picador
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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As a youngster, Christopher Koch was intrinsically aware of his mixed and tremulous heritage. When Margaret O'Meara, his Tipperary born, rebellious great-great-grandmother, boarded the Tasmania to travel as a convict to the southern hemisphere, there began a new dimension within Christopher's family tree; a secretive past that his mother refused to discuss. Many years later it was in Tasmania that the young Christopher grew up, and here that he began his lifelong quest to better understand his ancestral roots, a quest which rears its head in his travels around Ireland in the 1990's.

THE MANY-COLOURED LAND: A Return to Ireland

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THE MANY-COLOURED LAND: A Return to Ireland

Manufacturer: Pan Macmillan
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0330363832

Egypt - old & new: A popular account of the land of the pharaohs from the traveller's and economist's point of view : with many engravings, nearly 50 coloured plates and a map

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Egypt - old & new: A popular account of the land of the pharaohs from the traveller's and economist's point of view : with many engravings, nearly 50 coloured plates and a map
Percy Falcke Martin
Manufacturer: George H. Doran company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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THE MANY-COLOURED LAND. A Return to Ireland.
Christopher: Koch
Manufacturer: Pan Macmillan
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OUJRHI

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