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Cover of Tatham Mound

Tatham Mound

โœ Scribed by Anthony, Piers


Publisher
William Morrow
Year
1991
Tongue
English
Weight
430 KB
Edition
1st ed
Category
Fiction
City
New York, Florida.
ISBN-13
9780688101404

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โœฆ Synopsis


Epub Reformatted and completely reworked)

Anthony, best known for his science fiction (the Xanth series), has based this overburdened saga on early 16th-century artifacts found in an actual North Florida Indian burial mound. Combining myth, fantasy and history, this wide-ranging, picaresque adventure follows the 15-year quest of a young 16th-century Florida Indian, Throat Shot. He has been instructed by spirits of a burial site to save his tribe from a terrible danger by finding the Ulunsuti, a great transparent crystal on the forehead of a snake. The spirits vow to guide him. Throat Shot gamely sets out, encountering a series of colorful traveling companions who either regale him with their own unique stories or pull him into one risky escapade after another. He meets, for example, descendants of Mayan royalty; he escapes Aztecs bent on extracting his heart. The numerous extraneous narratives slow an already leisurely pace, but the book is yet more seriously marred by the ubiquitous bland tone blanketing every description from that of a smallpox epidemic to that of the encounter with the ultimate enemy, the greedy and arrogant Spanish invaders.

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From Library Journal

A young Indian warrior receives a mission from the spirits of the dead to search for an item of magical power that can save his people from destruction. Drawing heavily on recent archaeological finds in his home state of Florida, fantasy/sf author Anthony creates an imaginative reconstruction of the final days of the Amerindians of Safety Harbor (near Tampa Bay). Real events (such as de Soto's march across the state) are interspersed with tales from many tribes in this heartfelt tribute to a lost culture. A labor of both love and talent, this historical quasi-fantasy belongs in most libraries.

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