Buy this book on-line WRIGHTSON,PATRICIA** : The Ice Is Coming.**LONDON.HUTCHINSON,1977. ISBN 009129150X
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,no price-clip to dw/dj.
Colour,pictorial illustrated wrap-around artwork illustrated dw/dj,by David Bergen,
with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present - with spine/backstrip slightly sunned and faded.Top edge very,very lightly dust-soiled,fore-edge considerably
cleaner and bright,contents bright,tight and near pristine.Clean,tan paper-covered bds with bright,stamped gilt letters to
spine/backstrip and clean,brown+white map (Australia.) eps.8vo,11-222pp includes half-title+title pages,contents list,
author note,and 6 chapters.
The Ice is coming.Frost is seen in summer and ice patches form in spite of the hot Australian sun.To the Happy Folk, the town-dwellers, following the progress of the ice is a new game - but Wirrun, whose People have lived in the land since Dreamtime, feels fear in his bones.The Ninya,the green-eyed ice men,are abroad.
Ancient foes must fight again.Wirrun goes out to join the battle.Ko-in,hero,brings him to the power held in a crystal of quartz which will protect him as he meets the oldest race of the country:the creatures born of the land itself,sly and secret creatures,the earth spirits.
Oldest of them all is the Eldest Nargun, a monster of rock poured molten from the fires in the heart of the land itself and able to summon up the fire of its beginning.The Ninya can never rule unless they defeat it.So they search for the Eldest Nargun, and Wirrun searches too. Here,in a country young only to its latest settlers but in truth ancient, close to the world's beginnings,the spirits of the Dreamtime are locked in battle with the ice - the frail, courageous Mimi,little grey Nyols of the rocks,that terrible,red-eyed beast the Bunyip,the many-shaped Yabon,and the great white bird-spirits,the Yauruks.
Through it all the Happy Folk continue their relentless search for happiness.And Wirrun moves towards the country of the Narguns,to the unexpected and stunning climax of an epic struggle.The first book in the Wirrun trilogy - the others, The Dark Bright Water and Behind the Wind.
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