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The Floating Island
By Elizabeth Haydon and Brett Helquist (illustrator)
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Starscape
Publication date August 22, 2006
Pages 368
Binding Hardcover
Book category Juvenile Fiction
ISBN-13 9780765308672
ISBN-10 0765308673
Dimensions 1.25 by 6 by 8.50 in.
Weight 1.05 lbs.
Availability§ Out of Print
Original list price $17.95
Other format details juvenile
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
A re-release of the popularly received epic fantasy by the author of the best-selling Rhapsody series follows the adventures of young Ven, a hobbit-like youth who is eventually befriended by a ship's captain and placed in the care of the captain's wife, an inn-keeper who oversees orphaned charges and an array of eccentric boarders. 100,000 first printing.
Amazon.com description: Product 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.

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--even murder.

In a narrative that alternates entries from his journals and drawings from his sketchbooks, Ven begins the famous chronicles of his exciting and exotic adventures--adventures that would later earn him renown as the author of The Book of All Human Knowledge and All the World's Magic.


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Hardcover
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from Starscape (August 22, 2006)
9780765308672 | details & prices | 368 pages | 6.00 × 8.50 × 1.25 in. | 1.05 lbs | List price $17.95
About: Through the discovery of a journal, retells the adventures of a Nain explorer named Ven Polypheme who traveled throughout the world during the Second Age of history and experienced pirate attacks, prison, treasure, and magic.
Paperback
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Reprint edition from Starscape (May 20, 2014)
9780765375902 | details & prices | 368 pages | 5.25 × 8.50 × 1.00 in. | Rec. grade levels 4-6 | 0.68 lbs | List price $7.99
This edition also contains The Floating Island
Prebinding
Reprint edition from Paw Prints (April 9, 2009)
9781439582244 | details & prices | 368 pages | List price $14.99
About: 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.

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