Rudy Platiel

Broschiertes Buch

In The Land Of Ebyam

The Dangers of the Shadow World are Real

Beschreibung

Could it be that as we live one life, so we are also living another? Could we be unaware that part of our essence is split, somewhere beyond our current "world", in a hidden parallel universe? Is it possible to discover this parallel existence and travel between the two? Fourteen-year-old Conor has grown up in a time of forests, fields and cities where humans live alongside the Draegilians, a half animal and half human race, and the Shamyans, wizard-like humans with supernatural powers. For Conor, his life and world are simply normal. His greatest joy is dirt bike riding through the countryside with his best friend Dale. That is until he and his friend are chased by Draegilian bikers into an abandoned castle, where they find a waif-like girl with the mysterious power to create illusions. Within the castle walls, everything changes for Conor and Dale as a hidden shadow world is revealed. With the familiarity of their lives suddenly altered, the boys must find a way to confront the lethal destructive forces of mindless wrath where the lines between predator and prey become blurred by the need to survive.

Autor

Rudy Platiel was born in Owen Sound, Ontario, during the Depression. He left school at sixteen to work in a furniture factory before being diagnosed with tuberculosis and being admitted to a sanatorium for a year. He had surgery to remove part of one lung, and after being discharged, he took a business course that led to a job as a bookkeeper for a Brampton weekly paper, where he would eventually get his start as a reporter. He was hired several years later by The Globe and Mail as a reporter-photographer, where he worked for thirty-four years covering a wide range of topics. In 1970 he was assigned to spend a year travelling across Canada to document the rise of Indigenous issues. This began a decades long focus in which Rudy covered a number of issues and events that helped shape the cultural landscape of Canada to this day, including the series of constitutional conferences of the Prime Minister and Premiers to include the recognition of Indigenous rights in Canada's newly patriated Constitution. He also covered Canada's first war crimes trial after federal legislation was passed allowing for prosecution in Canada of war crimes committed outside its borders. Rudy married Agatha in 1962 in Peterborough, Ontario. They had four daughters, Christina, Louise, Vicki, and Valerie (Valerie died at birth). In 1997 Rudy retired from The Globe and Mail, and during his "second" career as a grandfather, he read stories to his grandchildren and their school classes and gave his time as a Big Brother. The story of In the Land of Ebyam emerged from his love of sitting with young people and sharing a good telling.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Tellwell Talent
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 270g
• ISBN-13: 9780228803010
• ISBN-10: 0228803012
• Artikelnr.: 55175833