![]() ![]() Travelling with a small army which includes his friend Meren, Taita finds a little girl living as a savage amongst a tribe of cannibals. During his journey, he gains new abilities as a Magus and can even detect the aura of living beings and discern their personalities. He is sent to investigate the blockage at the source of the Nile and defeat a seemingly immortal witch named Eos. In this final adventure of Taita, the beloved Magus is now 156 years old but through his powerful magic, has managed to live longer than most people (with the exception of a few other magicians). ![]() In desperation the Pharaoh sends for Taita, the only man who might be able to win through to the source of the Nile and discover the cause of all their woes. Something catastrophic is taking place in the distant and totally unexplored depths of Africa, from where the mighty river springs. The waters that nourish and sustain the land dry up. It is part of a series of novels by Smith set to Ancient Egypt and follows the fate of the Egyptian Kingdom through the eyes of Taita, a multi-talented and highly skilled eunuch slave.Įgypt is struck by a series of terrible plagues that cripple the kingdom, and then the ultimate disaster follows. The Quest is a novel by author Wilbur Smith first published in 2007. ![]()
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![]() And now, the private Kon-Tiki museum housing the original Kon-Tiki raft is placed in Bygdøy, Oslo- Norway. Finally, they had a successful landfall on 7 August 1947 in the Tuamotus archipelago. On 28 April 1947, they started the journey and sailed the raft for 101 days. In order to prove the feasibility of this theory, he decided to mount the Kon-Tiki expedition in company of 5 other men. Nonetheless, this theory was in contrast to the ongoing theory at the time. He believed that people from South America could have settled Polynesia in pre-Columbian times via crossing the Pacific Ocean by means of balsa-wood rafts. ![]() Thor Heyerdahl (1914-2002), the Norwegian explorer, in 1947 did his first major expedition over the Pacific Ocean, which brought him world-wide fame. ![]() ![]() Very detailed descriptions of something unnatural happening to a man's head. The Razorblades in my Head - This one made me sick and queasy. A few of these stories I beta read for Donnie, so please feel free to take this review with a grain of salt, if you think there's a possibility for a bias. ![]() ![]() THE RAZORBLADES IN MY HEAD by Donnie Goodman.ĭonnie is a friend of mine and reviews horror fiction for the Night Worms blog. I've read and enjoyed dozens of short story collections over the last few years from indie-published authors and I'm so glad it seems as though writing a bunch of short stories and collecting them for a book with badass cover art is exactly what one can do! I strongly encourage others to do this. He responded with an explanation that authors submit their stories to various publications magazines, anthologies, websites, etc., and then when the author has their rights back, they can collect them all into one book.Įxcept it seems that these publishing "rules" can be broken all the time! You don't just write a bunch of short stories and put them in a collection and release it." 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