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First known date: 2002 Issue Details: First known date: 2002... 2002 The Inheritors
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y separately published work icon The Tiger and the Stone Fletcher Anthony , Pymble : HarperCollins Australia , 2002 Z952321 2002 single work novel fantasy 'The Tiger and the Stone opens in prehistoric Asia, imagining a time long past and the people who dwelt then: people whose lives were dominated by the sanctity of the union between earth and spirit, yet who also endured the passions, fears, exhilaration and griefs common to us all. As we are taken into their lives, we see their world changing. Fern is a shaman to her people. Joined with a male shaman, Deep Wonder, she is the bridge between the People and the One. The traditions she follows have existed for ever, but now for the first time comes a man brave enough, and boastful enough, to dare to challenge them. Grave sacrilege is committed, and its violent consequences force Fern and the People to flee their home. Eventually they must travel across seas, island by island, until they find an expanse of land far greater and stranger than any the People have ever seen'. Source: publisher's website.
y separately published work icon Gods of the Inferno Fletcher Anthony , Pymble : Voyager , 2004 Z1140998 2004 single work novel fantasy 'Thousands of years ago, the People lived and worshipped their gods in the rainforests of the Indonesian archipelago. Then the Newcomers began to come from the north and the People are forced to move south ... and keep relocating again and again. They must trust those of their kind with whom they used to do battle; they must learn how to cross a river; they must forget their old ways and forge new ideas. Fern is their shaman, and above all her spirit must be forged anew or she and her people will die - not from hunger or starvation or war, but from the loss of their gods and the dying of their spirit ... the very heart of their world. And in contemporary Australia, another Fern must choose between the new world and the old ... and the visions of an ancient shaman may guide her path in the present.' (Source: publisher's website.)
y separately published work icon Spirits of the Earth Fletcher Anthony , Pymble : Voyager , 2005 Z1190023 2005 single work novel fantasy
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