Book description
Britannia, 1993. In a world where the Roman legionaries never left
Britain a man can walk from the walls of York - or Eburacum - to the
southern seas without leaving the shade of the greenwood, inhabited by
wildcats, wolves and bears, as well as the descendants of the folk who
built Stonehenge. Solar-powered air cars journey along straight roads
that connect them to the Roman settlements - and link them to the cities
of a global empire. When a jealous feud forced three young people into
the forest, they discovered an older Britain, where the rules of
rational Rome no longer applied. But now their sanctuary has been
besieged and they are once more on the run. Their destination this time
is Stand Alone Stan, a community built around an ancient standing stone
high on the Yorkshire Moors. And it is here that their paths must, at
last, diverge, and we begin to suspect the very different destinies that
awit them Stand Alone Stan is the second volume of A Land Fit for
Heroes. Phillip Mann was born in 1942 and studied English and Drama at
Manchester University and later in California. He worked in the New
China News Agency in Beijing for two years but has lived in New Zealand
since 1969, working as a theatre critic, drama teacher and university
Reader in Drama. As well as writing novels, he has written a number of
plays and stories for Radio New Zealand.
