Tymon's Flight: Chronicles of the Tree Bk 1
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Tymon's Flight: Chronicles of the Tree Bk 1
By (Author) Mary Victoria
HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
Voyager
1st August 2010
Australia
Classifications
General
Fiction
823.3
Short-listed for Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Novel (Adult) 2011
Physical Properties
Paperback
576
Width 177mm, Height 113mm, Spine 37mm
300g
Description
The World Tree rises up out of the seething clouds like a green mountain, lifting its children up to the light. All creation nestles in its gigantic branches: all take shelter beneath its canopy. There is no world besides this one - or so the priests in Argos city would have everyone believe. What then if the green God should wither away, or withdraw Her blessings from her children Tymon is an orphaned boy growing up at Argos seminary, in the lush heart of the Central Canopy. The Argosian priests have declared science to be a heretical pursuit, and banned travel beyond the confines of the Tree. But Tymon yearns to discover new horizons. He longs to break free of the seminary. When he discovers an interloper in the city baths - a foreigner, a female, one of the stigmatised Nurian pilgrims brought to the town every year as slaves - his life changes forever. Punished for his temerity and exiled to the dry and forsaken Eastern Canopy to serve out his indenture, he finds that there are different ways of interpreting the cosmos beyond those taught to him by the priests in Argos. He discovers that the heresy of Grafting, belief in the mystic "Tree of Being", still persists in the eastern colonies. And he meets Samiha, the girl who holds the key to his own latent powers, as well as the ultimate fate of his world.
Author Bio
Mary Victoria was born in 1973 in Boston, Massachusetts. Despite this she managed to live most of her life in other places, including Cyprus, Canada, Sierra Leone, France, and the UK. After a childhood misspent reading fantasy novels, she went on to study art and film, and worked as an animator for ten years. A job on Peter Jacksons Lord of the Rings movies brought her to her adoptive home in New Zealand, and rather neatly back to reading and writing fantasy novels -- a ludicrous activity which she has pursued ever since. She now lives in Wellington with her husband and daughter.
