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Minos of Sardanes
| Author: | Charles B. Stilson |
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Avalon Books, 1966 Original English publication, 1916 |
| Series: | Polaris Janess: Book 2 |
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1. Polaris of the Snows |
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| Book Type: | Novel |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
"It is fitting," said Zenas Wright to Polaris Janess, "that the man who discovered Sardanes should be the man to save her."
Born in the wilderness of the Antarctic by one of the strangest freaks of circumstance, Polaris had reached manhood without seeing any other human being besides the father who had reared him. When his father died the young man started to break his way through to civilization.
In his adventurings northward, he had found Rose Emer, an American heiress, lost in the snows. Where they made camp an ice foe broke up and they were whirled down the coast to the south again on an enormous berg. Inland, they had found the kingdom of Sardanes, a volcanic valley set like an emerald in the white fastnesses of the Antarctic, blooming with tropical verdure and peopled with a fragment of the ancient Greek nation, the Hellenes, of whose victories Homer sang. Polaris and Rose were the first people from the outer world of men to set foot there in nearly three thousand years.
In Sardanes, a king would have married the American Girl, but Polaris fought his way out of the valley with his dogs and guns, saving Rose and taking with them Kalin, the young high priest of Sardanes. The priest had died in the snowlands, but the man and the girl had come at last to the ship Felix, commanded by Captain James Scoland, From which the girl had strayed.
Long before they reached America, Rose had lost a not-too-warm admiration for the captain in a great love for the man who had saved her. Scoland, the explorer who had reached the South Pole in an airship, saw the girl won from him by the man from the wilderness.
Fearing lest the girl was enamored of the adventures which they had shared, and might later come to scorn the barbarian that he was, Polaris delayed to wed her for a year, a year which he devoted to an intense study of men and their ways. Of books he knew much; of men he knew little.
Before the year was out came Zenas Wright, with a report from the Smaley and Hinson expedition into Ross Sea, telling of a mighty volcanic eruption there. The scientist declared it to be an outpouring of the fires that warmed Sardanes. With the going of these fires, he asserted, the valley was doomed to return to wasteland, and its wonderful people to die.
Polaris said farewell to Rose and started south to face the perils of the Antarctic once more. His parting with Minos, known as the Smiling Prince, who had ascended the throne of Sardanes when Polaris slew the reigning king and the heir apparent--in his attempt to save Rose from an odious marriage--had not been on the most friendly terms. Yet he wanted to save Prince Minos and his people, if this were possible.
But Minos of Sardanes sat uneasy on his throne; there was portents of doom around him, and the priests were inciting the people to mutiny.
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