Beyond the Gap
Beyond the Gap (Opening of the World)
Beyond the Gap
Harry Turtledove
Count Hamnet Thyssen is a minor noble of the drowsy old Raumsdalian Empire. Its capital city, Nidaros, began as a mammoth hunters? camp at the edge of the great Glacier. But that was centuries ago, and as everyone knows, it?s the nature of the great Glacier to withdraw a few feet every year. Now Nidaros is an old and many-spired city; and though they still feel the breath of the great Glacier in every winter?s winds, the ice cap itself has retreated beyond the horizon.Trasamund, a clan chief of the mammoth-herding Bizogots, the next tribe north, has come to town with strange news. A narrow gap has opened in what they'd always thought was an endless and impregnable wall of ice. The great Glacier does not go on forever--and on its other side are new lands, new animals, and possibly new people. Ancient legend says that on the other side is the Golden Shrine, put there by the gods to guard the people of their world. Now, perhaps, the road to the legendary Golden Shrine is open. Who could resist the urge to go see? For Count Hamnet and his several companions, the glacier has always been the boundary of the world. Now they'll be traveling beyond it into a world that's bigger than anyone knew. Adventures will surely be had...

Book Details

Genre: 

  • Adventure
  • Fiction
  • Series

Age Level: 

  • 12 and up
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Count Hamnet Thyssen would much rather be safe home in his
castle in Raumsdalia than away in the northern Bizogot
country.  However, when Emperor Sigvat II summons him and
orders the count to go north beyond the glacier that has
always been the northern border of the world.  According to
a jarl of the Bizogots, Trasamund, a gap has opened to the
other side, allowing them to travel beyond the glacier.  
Along with Ulric Skakki, a man who, though not always the

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