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Book SynopsisPresents a story of a terrifying, ancient force unleashed in the South Pacific; 'fantasy, romance, adventure; something of mystery, something of the supernatural.'
Trade Review"Students of early science fiction will welcome the University of Nebraska Press's series Bison Frontiers of Imagination."—
Times Literary Supplement“First published as a novel in 1919, this path-breaking genre piece was praised by the
New York Times. . . . Merritt was among the first . . . to speculate in fiction about the implications of the new science, archeology, and anthropology at the turn of the century. . . . An entertaining ode to love and sacrifice.”—
Kirkus Reviews“Fantasy, romance, adventure; something of mystery, something of the supernatural; a weaving together of ancient legends, older by far than any historical records, with the scientific knowledge of the present day; and side by side with these, yet far above and mastering them, the power of human love and willing self-sacrifice, the whole held together by a shimmering, glittering web of imagination . . . It marks the debut of a writer possessed of a very unusual, perhaps one might almost call it extraordinary, richness of imagination.”—
New York Times Book Review
