Land of the Golden CloudsAllen & Unwin, 1999 - 378 sider An unlikely band of travellers from different tribes and civilisations traverse a vast, irradiated continent eventually joining forces in a final attempt to defeat a common enemy. To successfully do this though they must first learn to conquer their own prejudices. Set in Australia 3000 years into the future. |
Fra bogen
Resultater 1-5 af 9
Side 6
... King of the Bats . It was in this time - the Old Time - when the sky fell down and all the land shook to the footfalls of angry Gods - that Devils and monstros- ities were born too , to scuttle like curs or grotesque beetles at the High ...
... King of the Bats . It was in this time - the Old Time - when the sky fell down and all the land shook to the footfalls of angry Gods - that Devils and monstros- ities were born too , to scuttle like curs or grotesque beetles at the High ...
Side 8
... King , or the Beacon who caught her , she would be spared because , as a woman's only purpose was to procreate , no woman belonged to any one man . Of course , if the girl was foolish enough to fall pregnant then it was instant death ...
... King , or the Beacon who caught her , she would be spared because , as a woman's only purpose was to procreate , no woman belonged to any one man . Of course , if the girl was foolish enough to fall pregnant then it was instant death ...
Side 13
... King . But she had a new life now and wanted nothing to do with the violence of before . She did not join in the killings that sometimes happened when one of her kind wandered into the Sun People's world . As well as learning she was ...
... King . But she had a new life now and wanted nothing to do with the violence of before . She did not join in the killings that sometimes happened when one of her kind wandered into the Sun People's world . As well as learning she was ...
Side 14
... King of Bats , ' Willum whispered and she had peeped over the ridge , incredulous , trying to see the famed and feared figure . But he was too far away . It seemed unbelievable that the Sun Children could view their hated enemy right ...
... King of Bats , ' Willum whispered and she had peeped over the ridge , incredulous , trying to see the famed and feared figure . But he was too far away . It seemed unbelievable that the Sun Children could view their hated enemy right ...
Side 17
... King and his Beacons . There lay Willum . Her vicious cousins had not killed him straight away but had torn out his one eye with a javelin and then prodded and poked him as he stumbled about blindly . But he had died with his knife in ...
... King and his Beacons . There lay Willum . Her vicious cousins had not killed him straight away but had torn out his one eye with a javelin and then prodded and poked him as he stumbled about blindly . But he had died with his knife in ...
Andre udgaver - Se alle
Almindelige termer og sætninger
Akar Black Head amongst arms Aybee Baba beside black eyes blood blue body brother called camp caravan cave clan cocoon colour cried crowd Cudjo Accompong Culvato dance dark dead death Djanaks enemy face Father Moon fear feet fingers fire gathered gentle giant girl Goddess green grey Gypsy hair hand heard huge Ilgar Ilkari Jaala Jehiah Joda Jynni Kareen Keepers kill King knew Laelia land laughed Leef Leef-shadow lived looked mind Mond Star Light Moon-talker mother mountains Mungart murmured Nanny never night Nightstalkers once plain Port Rial Prince Michael Prophets Red Mond Star river rocks S'shony S'shony's seen shadow shoulder Silver City Sister Earth Sister Sun skin smile song stared story Surrey Anne tell things thought told Totem touch trees Violet Lynx Foot walked warrior watched weapons Weerluk whispered wild woman women wondered Wunda yellow
Populære passager
Side 223 - THE beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen! Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon : lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Side 254 - To cold oblivion ; though it is in the code Of modern morals, and the beaten road Which those poor slaves with weary footsteps tread Who travel to their home among the dead By the broad highway of the world, and so With one chained friend, perhaps a jealous foe, The dreariest and the longest journey go.
Side 248 - Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make Of hammered gold and gold enamelling To keep a drowsy Emperor awake: Or set upon a golden bough to sing To lords and ladies of Byzantium Of what is past, or passing, or to come.
Side 254 - I never was attached to that great sect Whose doctrine is that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend To cold oblivion...
Side 248 - SONG Go and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me where all past years are, Or who cleft the Devil's foot; Teach me to hear mermaids singing, Or to keep off envy's stinging, And find What wind Serves to advance an honest mind.
Side 172 - Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots ? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
Side 262 - O WILD West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being,. Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing. Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red, Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou, Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low, Each like a corpse within its grave, until Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth, and fill...
Side 222 - Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night. And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle...