Mandell's Mountain

ISBN: 0759617872

Author: Warner, Robert James

Condition: New

ABOUT THE GIGANTIC EPIC NOVEL THE ISLAND OF EDEN, TWO THOUSAND PAGES, SEVEN BOOKS, THREE VOLUMES, STARTING WITH THE FIRST TWO BOOKS: BOOK 1: THE DOOMSBURG; AND BOOK 2: THE DREAM CITY.The Island of Eden is a gigantic, many faceted novel, vast in concept and sweeping in scope. It encompasses the world and the vast reaches of space. It is the story of Rex King and Eva Queen, and a group of young Americans, and other American passengers, who take a cruise ship to the Antarctic. As the ship is approaching the ice covered continent in a thick fog, a strange force grabs the ship and pulls it through the sea in spite of all the crew can do to fight the strange powerful pull that has taken over the ship. Later, the ship is pulled into a collision with a gigantic iceberg. When the fog lifts the passengers find that the ship has been pulled into a huge hole in the iceberg, which almost covers the entire ship practically hiding it from view from above, destroying their hope of being seen from the air. Rex King and Eva Queen meet and fall in love making The Island of Eden one of the greatest love stories ever written. Rex and Eva and some other young passengers begin to have strange dreams. They dream of a strange man's face, and see the face on the white walls of the ship, a golden face so they call him 'Golden Face'; they dream of a beautiful city, so they call it The Dream City; they dream of another iceberg that is being pulled toward them just like the ship was, they call it The Doomsberg; they dream of a mountain they call 'Ice Mountain'. The dreamers join together into a dream group. The dream group has a strange compulsion to leave the ship, they don't know why. Many people are killed during their stay on the ship. Later, they are forced off the ship by a fire and by The Doomsberg hitting and destroying the ship. They set off for Ice Mountain, their only hope of survival. After one of the most grueling, body and soul breaking epic journeys in all of the annals of the wor