In the Beginning
Book Details
| Title: | In the Beginning | ||||||||||
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| Published: | 1927 | ||||||||||
| Publisher: | E. P. Dutton & Company | ||||||||||
| Tags: | adventure, fiction, paleontology | ||||||||||
| Description: | This is a weird story laid in a segregated part of South America where the evolutionary clock stopped at the Pleistocene age of development. News of this anachronistic marvel reaches a famous London paleontologist, and he arranges an expedition of investigation. His party consists of himself, his daughter, her two suitors, and a servant, the only living human beings who know of the existence of the spot they seek. The perilous adventures of this tiny party when they meet the sabre-tooth tiger, the glyptodent, the mastodon, the toxodent, and finally the hairy, clucking Pleistocene man himself, are thrilling enough, but the climax in tenseness is reached when one of the two suitors answers the call of the wild and deserts to the Pleistocene ranks, carrying his firearms with him. —The Saturday Review of Literature, October 15, 1927. [Suggest a different description.] |
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| Downloads: | 94 | ||||||||||
| Pages: | 164  |
Author Bio for Sullivan, Alan
Edward Alan Sullivan (November 29, 1868 — August 6, 1947) was a Canadian poet and author of short stories. He is noted for his 1935 historical adventure novel The Great Divide, which depicts the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
He gained recognition in the United States through his poems, short stories and comprehensive articles on various themes. These frequently appeared in Harper's Magazine, the Atlantic Monthly, and other leading American periodicals. In 1941 he won the Governor General's Award for English language fiction for the novel Three Came to Ville Marie and The Magic Makers in 1930. Wonder Stories reviewed his lost race novel In The Beginning favorably, saying its depiction of an encounter between modern men and Pleistocene-era tribesmen was a "most tremendous drama of inter-racial conflict".--Wikipedia.
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