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Bezig met laden... New Found Landdoor John Christopher
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Loved it! ( ) The sequel to Christopher's 1981 young-adult novel FIREBALL, NEW FOUND LAND is set in an alternate history where the Roman Empire never fell and Europe never colonized the Western Hemisphere. Simon and Brad, the quarrelsome cousins who accidentally entered this world in the previous book, here embark with their two Roman companions across the North American continent, headed for California. On the way they encounter hard-bargaining Algonquian hunters, a strangely-serene Viking colony on Nantucket, and the outlying cities of a greatly-enlarged Aztec Empire. The theme of an alternate America-without-Columbus has been developed more skillfully by other authors, notably Somtow Sucharitkul and Howard Waldrop, but Christopher's novel is a quick read, with (mostly) believable characters and a suitably intriguing denouement. Also of note is the author's treatment of the Aztecs as a sophisticated mercantile society, rather than the bloodthirsty barbarians of 19th and 20th-century American myth. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Onderdeel van de reeks(en)Fireball (2)
Encountering a fireball which turns out to be a crossing point between their world and another one on a different probability track, two boys, one English and one American, face Indians, Vikings and Aztecs in their attempts to reach California. Sequel of Fireball. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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