An Epic Life
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491_9781597055154
An Epic Life is a true tale of an adventurous couple reaching across the world to fulfil a lifes dream-a major achievement in the mid nineteenth century.The evolution of the steam engine revolutionized both time and travel. It was the whisk that developed the industrial revolution, propelled Great Britain along the track to become the most powerful nation in the nineteenth century world. The railway industry became, for many families, a lifetime career through generations.An Epic Life introduces a second couple from a different lifestyles, yet the lives of each become whisked together in a froth and bubble adventure to create, on the far side of the world, a DynastyHed lost all sense of time. For the last two nights hed slept in clefts of rocks never knowing if he were sharing his shelter with a snake. The first night hed stumbled across a creek bed that at least had a rock shelf for quite way along it and hed been following it, but soon lost track of how many times it had swerved to the right and how many to the left.And his entire neck and face was puffed and itchy from mosquito and other insect bites. And his body was tired. Worst drawback was that his compass was acting up. Sometimes it gave a clear reading yet even when only a few yards further it would begin dancing in wild gyrations. His scientific knowledge of minerals wasnt great, but could recall something from early RE training that if iron were present, even well below the earth surface, it could disorientate a compass......So maybe its that, but hows a man to know? All I can be sure of is that for most of each day Ive no certainty about which direction Im heading. And neither can I get a view of anything from anywhere-unless the top of this waterfall Im heading for can provide one.He took a little solace, however, in the fact that so far he had not been confronted with finding himself on a pathway hed already slashed. Or anybody had slashed.And if I were to follow the stream below the f
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