Blunderbuss Wanderlust: Being an Account of the Temporal Travels of Colonel Victor Von Vector and the Eras of His Ways

by David Shapiro, Christopher Herndon (Illustrator)

Colonel Victor Von Vector has a blunderbuss gun with a peculiar recoil. When he shoots, he gets kicked back in time 600 million years to the Cambrian Period. With each subsequent shot, Victor moves through geologic time, encountering beasts of the past and wandering through the varied environments that have colored Earth's history. Utilizing the Shakespearian sonnet as his means of record, Victor's journey from Cambrian, to Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, Tertiary, Pleistocene, Holocene, and back to his home time of the Edwardian is presented in 17 poems and 17 illustrated plates

Genres: Comics

40 pages, Paperback

First published May 3, 2010

About the author

David received his BA in natural history and creative writing from Prescott College. He has worked as an interpretive guide for the US Forest Service, as an animal tracker for a non-profit conservation organization, and as a content writer/camp director for large scale, multi-day art and music festivals. He lives in Portland, Oregon, where he is the president of Craigmore Creations, a publishing house that specializes in natural history entertainment. He is the author of several books, including Blunderbuss Wanderlust, the Terra Tempo series, and the web comic Around the World with Haley Zoic. He is available for author talks, naturalist presentations, and nature themed writers workshops.