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Binding: Mass Market PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780060892456 ISBN: 0060892455 Label: Harper Manufacturer: Harper Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 608 Publication Date: September 01, 2007 Publisher: Harper Release Date: August 28, 2007 Studio: Harper Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Five millennia ago, on the eastern bank of the river Tigris, the course of human history changed forever . . . The people of Orak cherish their peaceful village and the life they have made. Though not proficient with the bow or sword, they possess a weapon far stronger: the ability to coax food from the ground. This is why the barbarian leader Thutmose-sin hates and fears them. As his marauding clan of bloodthirsty warriors readies itself for the plunder and the kill, the fate of the village rests with the outcast barbarian Eskkar and the woman he loves, the wise and beautiful slave girl Trella—and on a bold, remarkable, never-before-tested plan of defense. For those who have known peace must turn their hands to war, to save from the savage invaders not only their families but their way of life. Average Rating:
 Rating: - The Beginnings of ThingsOkay, I really like ancient history and absolutely love to read about the beginnings of things. Especially the beginnings of great things like civilizations. This is said so that you know I am predisposed to really liking a book like this. And I liked it very much. The book is about a time when the balance of power begins to tilt from nomads to city dwellers. It moved along at a fast clip and I found it hard to put down. It also stimulated my interest in the Akkadian empire and I can't ... Read More Rating:  - New Favorite SeriesI found this book for a dime at a garage sale and it is the best dime I ever spent. This and the follow-up are now my favorite books. I recommend them to everybody. Rating:  - Despite the Bronze Age setting we have cardboard characters and a paper thin plot that doesn't inspire interest in the least About a year ago I went through an ancient history phase in my ongoing quest to read all the good historical fiction that exists.Remembering Hypatia: A Novel of Ancient Egypt an excellent book by Brian Trent got me started on this so I ordered three books set in the past, Trent's next novel about Gilgamesh called Never Grow Old: The Novel of Gilgamesh a story of Mesopotamian culture and medicine called In the Court of the Queen: A Novel of Mesopotamia by Elisabeth Roberts Craft and "Dawn of Empire." ... Read More Rating: - Amazing Adventure in Dawn of the EmpireDawn of an Empire is an amazing adventure into a time long ago; the Bronze Age. I read to escape, with this book I fell in, I was there inside of eight pages, and stayed there until the last page. What a great story, the first walled city in humankind coupled with an unusual love story of a brilliant girl and self discovering barbarian. I am impressed. I started this book on the morning of a doctor's appointment; by the time I had left I had told two of the staff members and my doctor about it. ... Read More Rating:  - Historical fiction or drivel? Barone's book misses the mark and misses the point. Suspending disbelief is easy, as someone said : The bigger the lie, the more people will believe it. Conveying human responses accurate for their time and place is a much more difficult task, one undertaken well by Robert Harris and Jean Auel as examples. Readers of historical fiction do not want mere storytelling. The frenetic activity level does not compensate for substance. Witness the numerous reprints of authors like Mary Renault, who wove into the ... Read More 
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