The hero, Zan-Gah seeks his lost twin in a savage prehistoric world, encountering suffering, captivity, conflict, love, and triumph. In three years, Zan-Gah passes from an uncertain boyhood to a tried and proven manhood and a position of leadership among his people. Themes: survival, cultures, gender roles, psychological trauma, nature's wonders and terrors.
The prehistoric saga continues in Zan-Gah and the Beautiful Country, the sequel to the award winning Zan-Gah: A Prehistoric Adventure. In this story, Zan’s troubled twin brother, Dael, having suffered greatly during his earlier captivity, receives a ruinous new shock when his wife suddenly dies. Disturbed and traumatized, all of his manic energies explode into acts of hostility and bloodshed. His obsession is the destruction of the wasp men, his first captors, who dwell in the Beautiful Country. When he, Zan-Gah, and a band of adventurers trek to their bountiful home, they find that all of the wasp people have died in war or of disease. The Beautiful Country is empty for the taking, and Zan’s people, the Ba-Coro, decide to migrate and resettle there. But the Noi, Dael’s cruelest enemies and former tormentors, make the same migration from their desert home, and the possibility develops of contention and war over this rich and lovely new land.
My thoughts
These two teen novels ZAN-GAH: A PREHISTORIC ADVENTURE and ZAN-GAH AND THE BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY by Allan Richard Shickman is an adventurous tale that takes place in prehistoric times. It is the story of Zan-Gah, a boy who becomes a man and leads his trib of people. In the first book Zan-Gah slays a lion that had killed another child of the tribe. Then he goes on a quest to find his missing twin, Dael, who had disappeared a year earlier. The sequel continues with Dael, who now is troubled from being captive for so long and his longing to destroy those who held him captive; the wasp men. Although, written for teens, they are also interesting enough for adults. Shickman has written two very enjoyable adventure stories.
Disclaimer: These books were received from the author for review. I received no compensation fo rmy review.
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