The Floating Island

The Floating Island

The Floating Island is a fantasy novel by Elizabeth Haydon. Released in 2006, the book is the first installment in "The Lost Journals of Ven Polypheme" series.

Book Description

Long ago, in the Second Age of history, a young Nain explorer by the name of Ven Polypheme traveled much of the known and unknown world, recording his adventures. Recently discovered by archaeologists, a few fragments of his original journals are reproduced in this book. Great care has been taken to reconstruct the parts of the journal that did not survive, so that a whole story can be told.

Charles Magnus Ven Polypheme--known as Ven--is the youngest son of a long line of famous shipwrights. He dreams not of building ships, but of sailing them to far-off lands where magic thrives. Ven gets his chance when he is chosen to direct the Inspection of his family's latest ship--and sets sail on the journey of a lifetime. He is Nain, a race who look like humans, but live four times as long. He is the youngest of thirteen, and is very tall for a Nain. He is very odd, because Nain are known to love being underground, also making his family odd, and Ven has an insatiable curiosity. Although Nain do not know how to swim, he does. Also, when he turns fifty, he has no whiskers, even though some Nain get them at the age of twenty.

Attacked by fire pirates, lost at sea and near death, Ven is rescued by a passing ship on its way to the Island of Serendair. Thankful to be alive, little does Ven know that the pirate attack--and his subsequent rescue--may not have been an accident. Shadowy figures are hunting for the famed Floating Island, the only source of the mystical Water of Life. They think Ven can lead them to this treasure, and will stop at nothing to get it.

External links

* [http://www.venbooks.com/floatingisland/excerpt.html Excerpt from the book]

* [http://www.venbooks.com The Lost Journals of Ven Polypheme] - Elizabeth Haydon
* [http://www.venpolypheme.com Ven Polypheme Curriculum Site]
* [http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/h/elizabeth-haydon/floating-island.htm Fantastic fiction]


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