Land of the Golden CloudsAllen & Unwin, 1999 - 378 Seiten 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. |
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... songs . To look upon the sun was instant and agonising death , everyone knew that . That is why there were no qualms about killing those above . Even though they looked the same they weren't , for the simple reason that those above ...
... songs . To look upon the sun was instant and agonising death , everyone knew that . That is why there were no qualms about killing those above . Even though they looked the same they weren't , for the simple reason that those above ...
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... of the sad empty tunnels . The walls of this cavern were covered in a green luminous type of moss and were treacherously slippery from the water that trickled down all around , and made a murmuring , eerie song 9 The Purple Plains.
... of the sad empty tunnels . The walls of this cavern were covered in a green luminous type of moss and were treacherously slippery from the water that trickled down all around , and made a murmuring , eerie song 9 The Purple Plains.
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Archie Weller. all around , and made a murmuring , eerie song as background to her gasps of exertion as she climbed . She was halfway to the top when her fingers failed to find the crack she needed when her foot slipped and down she ...
Archie Weller. all around , and made a murmuring , eerie song as background to her gasps of exertion as she climbed . She was halfway to the top when her fingers failed to find the crack she needed when her foot slipped and down she ...
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... song for them and they sang it every day , bringing together families and close friends in warm companionship . She learnt to smile and laugh too . Then she truly was beautiful . The longer she stayed with her new - found friends the ...
... song for them and they sang it every day , bringing together families and close friends in warm companionship . She learnt to smile and laugh too . Then she truly was beautiful . The longer she stayed with her new - found friends the ...
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... song from the soul of the cave and the only sound usually heard here . Her worries evaporated and it was in this magical place she told Willum the secret she had kept for him . She , too , had a jewel to give him - their child now ...
... song from the soul of the cave and the only sound usually heard here . Her worries evaporated and it was in this magical place she told Willum the secret she had kept for him . She , too , had a jewel to give him - their child now ...
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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
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 172 - Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots ? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
Seite 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...
Seite 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...