The Wounded Land
Thomas Covenant returns unwillingly to a Land ravaged by four thousand years of Lord Foul's pestilence. Under the evil Sunbane, the people of the Land submit to cruel sacrifices; the rulers of Revelstone are corrupt, the fields and forests laid waste; the healing Earthpower impotent. ...
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Thomas Covenant returns unwillingly to a Land ravaged by four thousand years of Lord Foul's pestilence.
Under the evil Sunbane, the people of the Land submit to cruel sacrifices; the rulers of Revelstone are corrupt, the fields and forests laid waste; the healing Earthpower impotent.
Accompanied by a woman from his own world, Covenant begins a new quest to save the Land from the forces that have all but destroyed it.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780006161400 (6161405)
Publish date: 1980-10-01
Publisher: Fontana Books
Pages no: 508
Edition language: English
Series: The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant (#1)
Return to the Land marked amazing experience - Donaldson moved from the Tolkien lookalike and let himself use all of the possibilities open by first trilogy and to the full extent, too. Here is Covenant, but in doubt whether he is a main protagonist, more powerful than before, yet even more sick and...
The Sunbane is probably Donaldson's most interesting idea in the Thomas Covenant series. The way it randomly cycles through rain, drought, fertility, and pestilence result in different effects each time depending on which order they appear in. But if you thought the First Chronicles were bleak, th...
[These notes were made in 1984:]. Bk. 1 of the Second Chronicles. The title says it all - or just about. This is not the Land delightful to the imagination that we encountered in the first series, but a frightful and horrible permutation of it, under the influence of what is called the Sunbane, a ...
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