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The Dragon of the Ishtar Gate
Hardcover, 341 pages
Published
January 1st 1982
by Donning Company Publishers
(first published 1961)
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Jul 07, 2011
Austin Bruce Hallock
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fans of historical fiction
A great romp with lots of solid historical background. This is NOT fantasy, though the cover might lead one to think so. There are a couple of wizards and magicians, but their supernatural powers lie only in their own heads. The setting is the Persian Empire of Xerxes after his defeat at the hands of the Greeks, mid-5th century BCE. The action moves from Persia, through Assyria, the Levant, and Egypt, and into darkest Africa. Some of the daring-do is a bit implausible, and the mores of the early...more
I've dubbed this 'the cursed book' because:
~ left it in a friend's tent while camping and didn't get it back for a couple of weeks
~ misplaced it again for a month before finding it under the bed (damn cats)
~ getting near the end I discovered that the book was missing a chunk of pages
~ ordered a copy off Abebooks and a day or so later the dealer refunded me saying that the book had already sold
~ ordered another copy off Abebooks and this happened again
~ finally received another copy a couple of w...more
~ left it in a friend's tent while camping and didn't get it back for a couple of weeks
~ misplaced it again for a month before finding it under the bed (damn cats)
~ getting near the end I discovered that the book was missing a chunk of pages
~ ordered a copy off Abebooks and a day or so later the dealer refunded me saying that the book had already sold
~ ordered another copy off Abebooks and this happened again
~ finally received another copy a couple of w...more
Another of De Camp's larger fantasies.
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Lyon Sprague de Camp, (Pseudonym: Lyman R. Lyon) was an American science fiction and fantasy author and biographer. In a writing career spanning fifty years he wrote over one hundred books, including novels and notable works of nonfiction, such as biographies of other important fantasy authors.He was widely regarded as an imaginative and innovative writer and was an important figure in the heyday...more
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