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A hidden advanced civilization protects life-changing secrets and is now threatened. Will archaeologists reveal discoveries that could revolutionise medicine and warfare?
When slavers attempted to abduct young warriors centuries ago, the tribe avenged the attack and disappeared.
Presently, two archaeologists, Allan Cline and Christopher Ward, lead a team of explorers to the Great Rift Valley and unearth truths that upend written history. They are derided by scientists despite holding concrete proof of the Earth's earliest advanced civilisation. Undeterred, they return to the Rift Valley with former Marines, turned mercenaries, for security. The archaeologists stumble into a cave with 50,000-year-old artefacts and find themselves in a mystical land where they discover substances of tremendous economic value.
Allan was always emotionally disconnected from everyone except his parents and longtime partner Christopher, but strangely, he feels a strong affinity with the peaceful but deadly Ashais people. He falls in love with an influential clan member.
When the mercenaries make a rogue escape with the substance, tragedy and conflict ensue. Allan will find himself torn between a people whose secrets he must protect and new truths he is supposed to reveal to the world as a scientist.
"The Crystal Bird" is an intrepid novel of adventure, intrigue and history that asks provocative questions about how civilisations are valued and what is to become of items of cultural patrimony. In the ongoing debate about science and religion, The Crystal Bird shows the different ways in which humans come to value life and the discoveries they make.


About the Author: I remember sitting in the kitchen at home in Belmont, which is a pretty little town in Trinidad, with many narrow lanes-some winding, and some as short as several strides. There in the kitchen my mother, a beautiful woman, would be making bread and cake. She would give me a piece of dough, and I would be lost in a world making shapes and little people. So it was from childhood I loved to create things, draw, paint...dream. I still get lost in poetry, writing and painting-passions that were with me, when in my teenage years, I went to parks and gardens in England to sketch the beautiful scenery and write poems. Having traversed corridors of the corporate world in banking and finance, marketing, corporate communications and advertising, I now indulge in the creative childhood passions in my homeland, Trinidad and Tobago. I am simply an ancient history enthusiast, poet, artist, university lecturer, and newspaper columnist. My publications are two books of poetry, Passages I and Passages II Brown Doves, and this novel, "The Crystal Bird."


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781475225075
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Depth: 25
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 22 mm
  • Width: 127 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1475225075
  • Publisher Date: 03 Dec 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 203 mm
  • No of Pages: 396
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 476 gr


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