The Adventure of Creation by Holly Lisle

The restored chapters lend resonance and add another reason to read this masterpiece by one of our greatest living historical novelists. This powerful novel combines adventure, wisdom and humor in an imaginative historical mix. Events like Salamis and Marathon, so central and triumphant from a Greek perspective, are treated as sideshows hindering what would have been the more logical and lucrative conquests of wealthy India and fragmented China. Spitama, half Mede and half Greek but a product of the Persian Empire, looks on Greeks as devious inhabitants of a cultural and military backwater. 10FOUNDATION BOOKS, Glenraven (Hardcover)Holly Lisle, Earthworms (Keeping Minibeasts)Barrie. The restored section, “The Burning of Sardis,” helps to clarify the novel’s perspective. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnClare Dwig Dwiggins. Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. Spitama serves as an ambassador for a series of Persian Great Kings, starting with Darius, who “dreamed of cows,” the Indo-Aryan symbol for wealth. Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for The Adventure of Creation: With a Foreword by Holly Lisle: Volume 1 (Think Sideways Writers Anthology) at.

More importantly, he converses with wise men such as the self-involved Buddha, the skeptical and frustrated Confucius, the unquestioning and self-satisfied Lao-Tse, and Socrates, as poor a philosopher as he was a stonemason in the view of the narrator. Cyrus Spitama, the fictional grandson of Zoroaster who narrates, ranges from Greece to Cathay, meeting such leaders as Pericles, Darius, King Bimbisara and Lord Huan. This classic novel has been reissued, including a previously cut section that ties East and West together across the 5th Century B.C. Historical fiction accepts limitations as to time, but works like Creation have freed the genre from the constraints of geography. This entry was posted in Book Covers, Promotions, Published Books and tagged Anthology, Book for Sale, Connie Cockrell, Fantasy, Holly Lisle, Other Authors, SciFi, Stories, Think Sideways Anthology by conniejean. This promotion will END on the 31st so hurry! For a three more days, it will be free to download. Ted Mumford, Debbie Cockrell, Connie Wells, Vanessa Bredenberg, Piia Hammond, Jessi Van Diepen, Thea Boughan, Faith Gale, Rabia Thurston, Laura. Here’s the link: ĪND! I have my newest book, Recall up on a promotion on . : The Adventure of Creation: With a Foreword by Holly Lisle (Think Sideways Writers Anthology) (9783956810008) by Lisle, Holly Zubrick, Debbie Smythe, Vanna Atchley, F.

I’d appreciate it if you would buy an e-copy or a paperback version. The Loire Valley and Its WinesJames Seely, American adventure by land and. There are 35 stories in the book and a forward by Holly, herself. TEXTS 01) By Lisle, Holly ( Author )Nov-01-1998 PaperbackHolly Lisle.

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The Adventure of Creation by Holly Lisle