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Wide as the Wind

Autor: EDWARD STANTON

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Editura: Open Books Press

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Winner of the 2017 Next Generation Indie Book Award for Young Adult Fiction The story of a boy, a...

Informații despre carte

Autor

EDWARD STANTON

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2016

Pagini

220

EAN

9781941799383

ISBN

9781941799383

Enbook ID

14529699

Editura

Open Books Press

Greutate

295

Dimensiuni

148 x 210 x 13

Descriere completă

Winner of the 2017 Next Generation Indie Book Award for Young Adult Fiction

The story of a boy, a girl, their island, and how they saved it. Wide as the Wind is the first novel to deal with the stunning, tragic history of Easter Island (Vaitéa). It could be described as quest fiction for all ages in the line of Tolkien's The Hobbit, but it is set in the real world, not Middle-earth. Wide as the Wind portrays Polynesian journeys across the Pacific Ocean in canoes with no metal parts or instruments: the greatest adventure in human prehistory, as bold as modern space voyages (National Geographic). When Vaitéa is ravaged by war, hunger and destruction, it falls upon Miru, the fifteen-year-old son of a tribal warrior, to sail to a distant island to find the seeds and shoots of trees that could reforest their homeland. If he decides to undertake the voyage, he must leave behind Kenetéa, a young woman from an enemy tribe with whom he has fallen deeply in love. And if Miru and his crew survive the storms, sharks and marauding ships that await them on a passage over uncharted ocean, an even greater mission would lie ahead. They must show their people that devotion to the earth and sea can be as strong as war and hatred. Wide as the Wind is both a stirring novel of discovery and a prophetic tale for our times.