Return of a Legend

Return of a Legend

Return of a LegendThere, Dave Kort was the first wilderness tramp to be remembered. In warm seasons...
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Author: Gallun, Raymond Z.,1911-1994
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Language: English
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Return of a Legend

Return of a Legend

$17.95 $8.97

Return of a Legend

$17.95 $8.97
Author: Gallun, Raymond Z.,1911-1994
Format: eBook
Language: English

Return of a Legend

There, Dave Kort was the first wilderness tramp to be remembered. In warm seasons he'd plod into Port Laribee, burdened by a pack that only the two-fifths-of-terrestrial gravity put within the range of human muscles. He was a great, craggy old man, incredibly grimed and browned, his frostbites bandaged with dry Martian leaves tied on with their own fibre. His snag-toothed grin was bemused and secret through the scratched plastic of his air-hood. He'd trade carven stones, bits of ancient metal, or oddities of plant and animal life for chewing tobacco, chocolate, heavily lined clothes, mending supplies, and new parts for his battered portable air-compressor. The equinoxial winds, heralding autumn, would moan thinly like the ghosts of the Martians wiped out in war those ages back. Dust would blur the horizon of that huge, arid triangle of sea-bottom called Syrtis Majorstill the least sterile land on the Red Planet. At night the dry cold would dip to ninety below zero, Fahrenheit. But at the fourth winter's end, Dave Kort did not return. No one ever saw him again, nor found among the ruins and the quiet pastel hues of Mars the dried thing that had been Kort. Somewhere drifting dust had buried it. No one had quite understood him in life. If any affection had been aimed at him, it was for a story, not a man. The man died but the story thrived. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 64032
Author: Gallun, Raymond Z.
Release Date: Dec 12, 2020
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Illustrator: Emshwiller, Ed, 1925-1990

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