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"MASTERFULLY RESEARCHED AND WRITTEN, THE CHILDREN OF FIRST MAN IS A FEAST OF A NOVEL. James Alexander Thom's sweeping saga of Welsh colonization in prehistoric America is loaded with wonderful characters and events, some so poignant I had to stop reading now and then to reflect." --Linda Lay Shuler Author of She Who Remembers With its beautifully written and deeply felt descriptions of the feelings the first white settlers and Native Americans had for each other, THE CHILDREN OF FIRST MAN tells the fascinating story of a European people gradually absorbed into the Amerindian culture until their literacy was lost and their Christian religion submerged in the legend of a Welsh Prince named Madoc, the First Man. Sweeping from the blood-soaked castles of medieval Wales to the landmark expedition of Lewis and Clark, from the hushed beauty of virgin wilderness to Mandan villages of domed earthen lodges, THE CHILDREN OF FIRST MAN is a triumph of the storyteller's art. "TERRIFICALLY ENTERTAINING...A highly imaginative novel that combines an old legend with historical fact to create an epic tale of America starting some three-hundred years before Columbus arrived." --Booklist… (más)
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1169-1201
MADOC WYF, mwydic wedd, lawn genua. Owen Gwnedd: Ni fynnum dir, fy enaid oedd Na da mawr, ond y moroedd.
MADOC I am the sonne of owen Gwynedd with stature large, and comely grace adorned: No lands at home nor store of wealth me please, My minde was whole to search the Ocean seas.
~Hakluyt's Navigations & Discoveries, 1589
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For Dark Rain, My other wing
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Prologue: Washington DC. April, 1838
Backstage in the Old Theater, George Catlin the artist kept dating from his wife's side to make nervous adjustments in the array of canvases, deerskin costumes, weapons, tools, buffalo robes, warbonnets, shields, and hoops, whose odors of musk and smoke and linseed oil permeated the cramped space.
AD 1169 - AD 1201
FORTY DAYS' SAIL WEST OF THE PILLARS OF HERCULES SUMMER ad 1169
There was no breath of a breeze.
Citas
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Eyes shut, the lingering sage and tobacco smoke recalling the vast plains of Four Bear's world, Catlin squeezed on the blade till his hand was wet with blood and his eyelids wet with tears, feeling a pain that Four Bears, the brother of his heart, had felt one glorious day long ago.
"MASTERFULLY RESEARCHED AND WRITTEN, THE CHILDREN OF FIRST MAN IS A FEAST OF A NOVEL. James Alexander Thom's sweeping saga of Welsh colonization in prehistoric America is loaded with wonderful characters and events, some so poignant I had to stop reading now and then to reflect." --Linda Lay Shuler Author of She Who Remembers With its beautifully written and deeply felt descriptions of the feelings the first white settlers and Native Americans had for each other, THE CHILDREN OF FIRST MAN tells the fascinating story of a European people gradually absorbed into the Amerindian culture until their literacy was lost and their Christian religion submerged in the legend of a Welsh Prince named Madoc, the First Man. Sweeping from the blood-soaked castles of medieval Wales to the landmark expedition of Lewis and Clark, from the hushed beauty of virgin wilderness to Mandan villages of domed earthen lodges, THE CHILDREN OF FIRST MAN is a triumph of the storyteller's art. "TERRIFICALLY ENTERTAINING...A highly imaginative novel that combines an old legend with historical fact to create an epic tale of America starting some three-hundred years before Columbus arrived." --Booklist
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