A fantasy adventure along the lines of `The Thief of Baghdad'. The dictator of Jadur charges a young prince with the task of finding a magic rose in return for the hand of his daughter. Christopher Lee, Oliver Tobias, Emma Samms and Mickey Rooney star.

This story is compelling reading and incorporates a true old-fashioned love story with the Australian outback. One of those books where any interruption was an annoyance.(see review)Peter Harrison has spent the last 11 years drifting around Outback Australia, drowning in a quagmire of guilt. The guilt of leaving his childhood sweetheart behind and the guilt of not being with his father when his mother died.

He returns home and his life becomes more complicated. The woman he loves, is still in love with him but is married to another man.

Devastation takes the place of a moment of joy, and Peter returns to the only solace he knows; hard work.

Again Peter finds himself in the outback. He is tempted when on arriving at a one property he finds he knows the wife of the owner who takes a liking to him. He is about to move on but a natural disaster maroons him and leaves him with a duty compelled by the bushmans code and the temtation of a woman with her own ideas on romance.

When Peter finally returns from the bush a second time, he finds that his love has left town for the city, to escape the retribution of her husband.

Peters search for Lyn and her children, take him to the city, a place in which he flounders until finally he heads back to the outback.

When Lyn's vindictive husband finds her, beats her and absconds with the children, Lyn decides to find Peter. Her Journey takes her into the wilds of outback Australia, a journey through heat and dust and almost the loss of her life. A brief encounter with a Tribal Aboriginal elder saves her from death and reunites her with Peter, but the children are still missing.

Join Lyn and Peter in their quest to recover her children, and meet Ronny an Aboriginal boy searching for his heritage.

The children have run away from their father but find themselves lost in the inhospitable country of the far west. They find Ronny, who with his inherent instinct for survival brings them across hundreds of miles of wildernes to their mother, in Australias biggest city, Sydney.

From cattle camps in the desolation of the Outback, across half the country by Road Train, on foot and horseback, this story will keep you enthralled to the final surprising conclusion.

Whilst the storyline is fictional (or is it?), the premise behind the tale is certainly thought-provoking. "See review";/h2>

Could it be that you and I are descended from an alien race of people who came to Earth as refugees. Colonisation is not new; it has been going on for centuries and within the last three hundred years, Australia and Africa experienced colonisation by Europeans.

Thaddeus was finding that his world was not what most of those who lived in it thought it was. There was a truth that was not evident. There were factors that in the most part were unbelievable.

It can be argued that modern history began just six thousand years ago. For over two hundred thousand years before then, people had not progressed beyond hunter and gatherer? Did people suddenly decide to change or did something intervene? Before then our history was scratched onto cave walls. Is it a coincident that written history and religion seem to parallel each other? The argument between science and religion regarding creation has long been contested. Both can't be right, or can they? What if there is an explanation?

Some people know the answer. One such is Thaddeus Reader, who finds himself as the connection between ancient men of this world, and the others who consider themselves the dominant species. His people came as refugees. Driven from their home by hunger and room to live, they found here the things they needed, but at a cost.

They found a population with ideals completely different to their own, and their creed was not to interfere but to blend in. They were told to suppress their influence until the time was appropriate; but something went wrong.

Thaddeus was driven by dreams and thoughts from deep within his mind that connected him by fate to one of the last true indigenous people of Earth. Thaddeus is compelled to find them, and his journey takes him around the world and through history, to the last continental landmass to be discovered on this planet.

Here he finds the answer to the dreams that have haunted him all his life, and a woman to replace a love tragically lost to him in his youth. This combined with a surprising conclusion presents a novel of adventure romance and intrigue.

Action drama and romance and what happens when people of different races conflict. People flee their homelands for political or personal reasons; imagine that a whole world population decides it is time to move -- what might happen?

The albatross glided on silent wings, its eyes taking in the players on the stage of the ships deck it noticed the figure standing alone by the railing, and several other performers wandering The deck beneath the rigging of the small sailing vessel.