Islandia by Austin Tappan Wright (.ePUB)
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Islandia (1944) by Austin Tappan Wright
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Overview: “It is a work of high intellectual power, of deep human insight, of penetrating social and philosophical criticism, and it is also a work of poetic and passionate tenderness.”
Islandia occupies the southern portion of the Karain subcontinent, which lies in the Southern Hemisphere. Its people are an agrarian, highly civilized race, menaced from the north by savage tribes and from the coasts by Arabic raiders. Its civilization is an ancient one, protected from outside intervention by a natural fortress of towering mountains. To this isolated country—this alien, compelling, and totally fascinating world—comes John Lang, American consul. As the reader lives with Lang in Islandia, as he comes to know this magnetic land, its unique people, its strange customs…he may very well find himself experiencing a feeling of envy: a wish that he, like Lang, be permitted, at the book’s end, to return once more and spend the rest of his days in Islandia.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
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