The Taklamakan, China's Death Desert, crusted huge snowmelt water
reservoirs. Out of the blue, a powerful earthquake transforms its
mounds to marshland. Suddenly, flattened sand dunes lip divergent
swamps rimmed by woven mangrove thickets. What dunes had long
dominated has become a haven for animal life soon, to appear.
Dormant for three hundred million years, Triassic life begins to
emerge. And with it a macabre deadly disease. In the Taklamakan
palaeontology and medical science team up to fight the scourge.
Triassic creatures mysteriously appear. For the first time, homo
sapiens sees living Triassican amphibians; leaping giant frogs to
lumbering pre-Jurassic reptiles while 'tendrilosis', the ghoulish
disease, takes its toll. There is no cure. The disease spreads
globally. Because the scourge cannot be scientifically figured, it
cannot be stopped. Have four billion years also mutated earth's
fundamental laws? Have the scientific links between past and
present been transformed? There are no answers. Until human
intuition intervenes ......
General
Imprint: |
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
July 2013 |
First published: |
July 2013 |
Authors: |
Zavi Segal
• Sol Kesler
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
442 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4841-3716-1 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Genre fiction >
Adventure / thriller >
General
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LSN: |
1-4841-3716-7 |
Barcode: |
9781484137161 |
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