Short summary Book 06
With but a few mishaps and a little fighting, Eden is moving toward peace and freedom. The space age of responsible guardianship has slowly won over reckless abandon. Some time for education building and travel. Learning the world that was theirs.
Longer summary Book 06
Chapter 31 Art History Island is a long pleasant trip. First up river in a rowboat. Beautiful places to camp. And finally at the island, a beautiful surprise. A woman dear to the entire crew. They enjoy the island and learn a little history looking at the many stone carvings. Artemis needs time to draw them all so that a book can be printed.
Chapter 32 The Advent of Sport all over the known world. The number one sport on Barbancor is soccer, or as they call it, football. Sports takes over from war. It also leads to new businesses and new constructions. There is work to prepare for the books and a tour of Barbancor is also the excitement for the coming chapters.
Chapter 33 Camp Namor. A surprise break in their protocol tour. After a pleasant stay in Waterford, some establishing of sports, science and technology. They came to a small city that did not welcome the invaders. So they set up Camp Namor to defend against the resistance. After one bloody battle, the settlement quickly grew into a city. The locals warmed up to the new world and became part of Camp Namor. Three Rivers was often visited and also brought into the new world of science and technology. And the biggest surprise, the Drave King fought in Three Rivers when one of Zarathustra’s fighters was injured.
“Did he win.”
Chapter 34 Visit the West. We start and end in Gadavida City. It is the most advanced city on Barbancor. Also the most beautiful. Most of our time, however, is up the main river for visits to towns and cities, a short stay at Snow City, then after a couple fights and basketball games in Little Barbaralba City, we build a raft and live on it all the way back to Gadavida. A slow ride with time to enjoy some leisure and a bit of philosophy mostly of the astrophysical kind.
Chapter 35 Before the Tour of the World deals with preparations but not so much for our characters. They are mostly involved with participating in the events of the new world. Not quite the space age but the fire age was coming to an end. For Eden it was mainly an attitude shrift from small-minded servitude to a suffocating law to the new plus sum gain beginning of cosmic awareness. Being aware that there is a cosmos changes how life appears to matter.
Chapter 36 Tour of the World takes our crew to the east then to the north. A little time for settling Narnok Harbour. Their northerly travel eventually takes them past the pole and south toward the equator. They discover some landmasses and map what they can and record what they can and record what they learn of the islands and finally the larger landmass with the pleasant surprise.
