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For young Prince Harpirias, the journey into the frozen tundra of the remote borderlands of Majipoor might well have been a death sentence. But it was also the only way out of a petty bureaucratвЂTMs job in a provincial city, where heвЂTMd been exiled as punishment for a youthful indiscretion. Doomed to spend the rest of his days hopelessly separated from the CoronalвЂTMs glittering court, he grasps at his only hope — a mission that could represent suicide or salvation. Somewhere beyond the nine guardian mountains of the Khyntor Marches, a party of paleontologists were captured while searching for the fossils of a fabled species of land-dwelling dragons. Their captors are a lost race of humans who, cut off from the majesty and civilization of Majipoor, have reverted to a primitive hunter-gatherer existence. Only one of the party has returned, a Shapeshifter named Korinaam, to bring back the terms for the release of the scientists. Harpirias sets out on a mission of negotiation and rescue with a small band of soldiers and the wily Shapeshifter, who acts as both guide and interpreter. Facing blinding blizzards and slashing ice storms, physical privation and the attack of strange
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Silverberg, Robert
- Publisher
- Bantam Books
- Published
- 1995
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
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