The Golden Shrine – Harry Turtledove

General Information
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Title: The Golden Shrine
Author: Harry Turtledove
Read By: William Dufris
Copyright: 2009
Audiobook Copyright: 2009
Genre: Fantasy
Publisher: Tantor Media
Series Name: Gap
Position in Series: 03

File Information
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Number of MP3s: 42
Total Duration: 13:55:07
Total MP3 Size: 385.28
Encoded At: CBR 64 kbit/s 44100 Hz Mono
ID3 Tags: Set, v1.1, v2.3

Book Description
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The glaciers came and covered the world with ice. Now they are in retreat.
North of the city of Nidaros, north of the forest, north of the steppes
where the nomadic Bizogots hunt, a gap has opened in the ice-wall. And
down through that gap come the men who call themselves "Rulers." Their
terrifying cavalry rides wooly mammoths. Their bows can shoot arrows
farther than those of the southerners. Their wizards wield power that
neither the shamans of the Bizogots nor the wizards of Raumsdalian Empire
can match—a magic that can melt the stone beneath a man’s feet, call
down blasting fire from the sky, or decimate a tribe with plagues that
have no cure.

Scattered survivors of the Bizogot tribes hide from the Rulers. The
Empire is shattered. The feckless Emperor Sigvat II is in hiding. Against
the Rulers stands Count Hamnet Thyssen and his small band of friends:
Jarl Trasamund of the Three Tusk Bizogots; the adventurer Ulric Skakki;
and, most important, Marcovefa, the female shaman of a cannibal tribe
that lives atop the Glacier itself. Marcovefa has magic that the Rulers
cannot counter. But there are many Rulers, and they have many wizards.
Marcovefa is but one.

Perhaps Hamnet and his allies can save their lands from the Rulers.
But first they must seek out the legendary Golden Shrine—and the Golden
Shrine has not been seen by human eyes since the time before the glaciers
came.

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