The Ancient One
1st Tor ed.
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Author
Publication
1994 - Tom Doherty Associates, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
84,750 words, Guess
Page Count
339 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveancientone00taba
- Internet Archiveancientone0000barr
- ISBN-100812536541
- ISBN-139780812536546
- OCLC Control Number30961843
and 4 more
- Better World BooksO6-EWZ-605
- Better World Books9780812536546
- Better World BooksO6-DCC-982
- Open LibraryOL26328618M
Classifications
- DDC[Fic]
- LCCPZ7.B27567 An 1994
Description
While helping her Great Aunt Melanie try to protect an Oregon redwood forest from loggers, thirteen-year-old Kate goes back five centuries through a time tunnel and faces the evil creature Gashra, who is bent on destroying the same forest.
Description
A fight to save a stand of Oregon redwoods occupies Kate, 13, in this time-travel fantasy. Annotation. When Kate travels to Blade, Oregon, to spend a quiet vacation with her Aunt Melanie, she has no idea of the adventures that lie ahead. Blade, Oregon is home of the magical Lost Crater, in which a grove of giant readwood trees has remained untouched for thousands of years. Now the ancient grove has become the center of a major dispute between those who wish to save this rare sanctuary and the local loggers who see Lost Crater as their last hope to rejuvenate their dying mill town. Caught up in the struggle, Kate feels compelled to learn more and decides to follow a trail into the crater, which, as legend has it, was made by the ancient Halami people believed to have once lived in the region. But for Kate, what starts out as a day's discovery soon turns into a life's journey. With the help of an ancient walking stick, Kate is thrust back in time five hundred years. Quickly befriended by a young Halami girl, Laioni, Kate learns that not much as changed in five centuries as she is caught in the middle of a battle for the same wilderness. Confronted by a myriad of strange and frightening creatures, including the trickster Kandeldandel and the evil Gashra, who is bend on destroying everything he cannot control, Kate must complete her quest and return to her own time. But to do so, she must not only discover the truth behind her own beliefs, but also unravel an ancient and wondrous riddle bearing the knowledge of life's intricate and fragile balance.
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Series Statement
- Tor fantasy
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- The Ancient One
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