Stone spring /
Ten thousand years ago, a vast, fertile plain linked the British Isles to Europe. Home to a tribe of simple hunter-gatherers, Northland teems with nature's bounty, but is also subject to its whims. Fourteen-year-old Ana calls Northland home, but her world is changing. The air is warming, the ic...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Roc,
[2011]
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| Series: | Baxter, Stephen. Northland trilogy ;
bk. 1. |
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| Summary: | Ten thousand years ago, a vast, fertile plain linked the British Isles to Europe. Home to a tribe of simple hunter-gatherers, Northland teems with nature's bounty, but is also subject to its whims. Fourteen-year-old Ana calls Northland home, but her world is changing. The air is warming, the ice is melting, and the seas are rising. One day Ana meets a traveler from a far-distant city called Jericho- a town that is protected by a wall. And she starts to imagine the impossible ... So begins a colossal engineering project that will take decades: the building of a wall that stretches for hundreds of miles- a wall that becomes an act of defiance against the implacable forces of nature, and an act of devotion as the bones of the dead are added to it. A wall that will change the geography of the world. And its history.--From front jacket flap. |
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| Item Description: | "Previously published in a Gollancz trade paperback edition"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | 499 pages : map ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (496-499). |
| ISBN: | 9780451464187 0451464184 |