Dragon Lords Rising by Lucinda Hare

Dragon Lords Rising by Lucinda Hare

This publication investigates the role of fire in prehistory. Dragos Gheorghiu is professor of cultural anthropology and prehistoric art at National University of Arts, Bucharest. Since 2000 he directed the Vadastra project on experimental archaeology focused on pyrotechnologies. He was advisory editor for Antiquity, editor of Experimental Pyrotechnology Group Newsletter and published in BAR and Kluwer Academic on Chalcolithic material culture. Among the books he edited in BAR are The Fire in Archaeology (2002), Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Hydrostrategies (2003) and Ceramic Studies (2006).George Nash is a visiting fellow and lectures at the Department of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Bristol, England. He is also principal archaeologist at SLR Consulting (Shrewsbury) where he works within the private sector. He has worked in northern Europe, North America, Romania, Indonesia and the Iberian Peninsula, researching mainly prehistoric art and hunter-gatherer societies. He has published a number of books including recently The Architecture of Death: The Neolithic Chambered Tombs of Wales (2006) and Looking Beyond the Castle Walls (2006).

Lucinda was born in Edinburgh and spent her childhood in rural East Lothian, where she spent much of her time roaming the beaches and woods, watching deer, pheasants, geese and rabbits, and listening to the bark of the seals float down the Firth of Forth on the evening breeze. It was then that her lifelong passions for animals - from earwigs to elephants - history, reading and drawing began. She spent years daydreaming about the Roman legions, medieval knights and the American west. Rather than write about the dreams and stories in her head, she drew them purely from her imagination. She is hopeless at drawing anything real in front of her. When she was eleven she was introduced to The Lord of the Rings which combined her own passions for history, legend and fantasy. Still her favourite book, she was thrilled with Peter Jackson's recent Lord of the Rings movie trilogy. After reading history at university she went on to pursue a busy and diverse career in many different companies and organisations, ranging from the Argus Newspaper Group in Cape Town, to the Scottish Post Office, and Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt Universities. After marrying Paul in 1999, Lucinda was able to return to those childhood passions, and very soon their house in Lasswade filled up with ever more rescued animals (dogs, cats, rabbits, guinea pigs and ex-battery hens), books, and pastel and watercolour drawings and illustrations covered in dirty paw marks - the cats do always like to help out! This led to Paul's suggestion that she should try putting pen to paper - or rather, given Lucinda's chaotic writing style, get a laptop and start writing. The result was a rapid explosion of ideas and the start of The Dragonsdome Chronicles. It should be no surprise, then, that the characters at the heart of Dragon Lords Rising and the earlier books in the series - apart from sorcerers, gnomes and dwarfs - are in fact dragons; dragons with their own language and character, from the teasing Chasing the Stars to those with serious attitude like the battledragon Two Gulps & You're Gone. The dragons owe the inspiration for their names to Native American culture, and their characters draw on some of the family pets.

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ISBN 13	9780957471801
ISBN 10	0957471807
Titel	Dragon Lords Rising
Autor	Lucinda Hare
Serie	Dragonsdome Chronicles
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Thistleburr Publishing
Erscheinungsjahr	2012-10-31
Seitenanzahl	389
Preise	Winner of Monbeam Children's Book Awards Double Silver Medal Winner 2013
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