Preview of 'Anne Steelyard and the Garden of Emptiness'

From Penny-Farthing Press

Penny-Farthing Press

Street Date: December 2, 2008

Cover Price: $14.95 USD

Author: Barbara Hambly

Artists: Alex Kosakowski and Ron Randall

Page Count: 96

Trim Size: 6.625” x 10.187”

ISBN: 978-0-9719012-9-2

In 1909, the world is an unstable place.  Germany and Great Britain posture and glare at one another in a prelude to World War I, and the Young Turks are challenging the last Turkish Sultans for control of the Ottoman Empire.  For one British archaeologist, the chaos of the time is heightened by one simple fact: gender.  She is a woman, a woman whose intelligence and ambition force her into direct conflict with the male-dominated spheres of imperialism, scholarship, and politics.  For her, the desire to unearth lost cities and treasures of past civilizations does not hold the allure of celebrity, but instead, the promise of independence and the ability to find the buried answers to the myths of human experience.

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