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Can I read Stone Spring : The Northland Trilogy on EtoBox?

Stone Spring : The Northland Trilogy by Stephen Baxter is a science book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Stone Spring : The Northland Trilogy about?

Alternate history at its most mindblowing-from the national bestselling author of Flood and Ark.8,000 years ago Europe was a very different place. England was linked to Holland by a massive swathe of land. Where the North Sea is now lay the landmass of Northland. And then came a period of global warming, a shifting of continents and, over a few short years, the sea rushed in and our history was set.But what if the sea had been kept at bay? Brythony is a young girl who lives in Northland. Like all her people she is a hunter gatherer, her simple tools fashioned from flint cutting edges lodged in wood and animal bone. When the sea first encroaches on her land her people simply move. Brythony moves further travelling to Asia. Where she sees mankind's first walled cities. And gets an idea. What if you could build a wall to keep the sea out? And so begins a colossal engineering project that will take decades, a wall that stretches for hundreds of miles, a wall that becomes an act of defiance, and containing the bones of the dead, an act of devotion. A wall that will change the geography of the world. And it's history.Stephen Baxter has become expert at embedding human stories into the gr

Who reads Stone Spring : The Northland Trilogy?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Stephen Baxter
Publisher
Roc Trade
Published
2011
Language
EN
ISBN
9781101545461
Category
science
Subjects
Fiction, Historical Fiction, Adventure
Rating
4.1 / 5 (167 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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