Beyond the Gap
Turtledove, Harry
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BOOK SUMMARY
Bronze Age meets Ice Age in a compelling new alternate-history adventure from the author of The Guns of the South
BOOK SYNOPSIS
Count Hamnet Thyssen is a minor noble of the drowsy old Raumsdalian Empire. Its capital city, Nidaros, began as a mammoth hunters' camp at the edge of the great Glacier. But that was centuries ago, and as everyone knows, it's the nature of the great Glacier to withdraw a few feet every year. Now Nidaros is an old and many-spired city; and though they still feel the breath of the great Glacier in every winter's winds, the ice cap itself has retreated beyond the horizon.
Trasamund, a clan chief of the mammoth-herding Bizogots, the next tribe north, has come to town with strange news. A narrow gap has opened in what they'd always thought was an endless and impregnable wall of ice. The great Glacier does not go on forever--and on its other side are new lands, new animals, and possibly new people.
Ancient legend says that on the other side is the Golden Shrine, put there by the gods to guard the people of their world. Now, perhaps, the road to the legendary Golden Shrine is open. Who could resist the urge to go see?
For Count Hamnet and his several companions, the glacier has always been the boundary of the world. Now they'll be travelling beyond it into a world that's bigger than anyone knew. Adventures will surely be had...
BOOK REVIEWS
"Turtledove has proved he can divert his readers to astonishing places. He's developed a cult following over the years; and if you've already been there, done that with real-history novelists Patrick O'Brian, Dorothy Dunnett, or George MacDonald Fraser, for your Next Big Enthusiasm you might want to try Turtledove. I know I'd follow his imagination almost anywhere."--San Jose Mercury News on Harry Turtledove
"Turtledove excels in alternate history."--Library Journal on Harry Turtledove
"Harry Turtledove is probably the best practitioner of the classic alternate-history story since L. Sprague de Camp."--Locus on Harry Turtledove
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0765317109
ISBN(13-digit): 9780765317100
Dewey Decimal: 813/.54
Library of Congress: 2006051493
Book Publisher: St Martins Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 336
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