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Iron
Maiden (Paperback)
Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies
Choose to Fail or Succeed inspired this alternate history that takes place
during the American Civil War and tells the story of eight people who come
together after the battle between the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia.
Using the money they earned by tricking the U. S. Government into buying more
monitor-class ships, they attempt to escape the war and retreat to "paradise,"
Easter Island. However, this paradise has been transformed by the natives into a
human ecological disaster and monument to pagan fertility rights and even
cannibalism. Through the inventiveness and labors of the main characters, the
fanatical Bird Man cult is finally banished but not before many people have
died as a result. Does mankind choose its own destiny? Read Iron
Maiden and see!
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ISBN 0-9776503-5-9
Publication Date:
6/12/2006
$14.95 ea. (50% wholesale discount)
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| Book Type:
6 x 9 in or 229 x 152 mm Perfect Bound |
| Page Count:
360 |
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"Iron Maiden is an eclectic collection of historical and literary
subjects strangely woven together to create a unique novel–maritime activities
during the Civil War; inventor John Ericsson’s battleship–the Monitor;
readings from and references to Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Moby Dick
and The Bounty; John Wilkes Booth’s attempted assassination of
Ericsson; three romances; slavery; anthropological research about the South
Pacific islands, Easter Island; and Plato’s Republic. Quite a
feat–tying it all together!"--Kaye
Trout Book Reviews"Iron
Maiden is different, in a good way--a really good way. The author obviously
knows his time period and has done a lot of research to make his story fit
seamlessly into place. His attention to historical accuracy definitely shows.
Two of the characters were real people and the author’s story fits very neatly
with the records of their personalities and their life stories. I even felt the
need to do some checking to see where the alternate history started and ended. I
liked that aspect."--Tami Brady,
TCM Reviews
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