West of Eden
West of EdenHarry Harrison

West of Eden (1984)

Harry Harrison

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In West of Eden, bestselling author Harry Harrison has created a rich, dramatic saga of a world where the descendants of the dinosaurs struggled with a clan of humans in a battle for survival.Here is the story of Kerrick, a young hunter who grows to manhood among the dinosaurs, escaping at last to rejoin his own kind. His knowledge of their strange customs makes him the humans' leader . . . and the dinosaurs' greatest enemy. Rivalling Frank Herbert's Dune in the majesty of its scope and conception, West of Eden is a monumental epic of love and savagery, bravery and hope.

ISBN:
9780743487184
Length:
496 pages

Genres: fantasy , science fiction

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I think, , it's very clear that Harrison thought, , extremely deeply and took advice even about how a society of evolved dinosaurs might function, and I thought it was fascinating, , to read from that perspective. A very rich view of both the Ilani and Tanu society, , is built, and we get, , to care very much, , about the characters that we meet, of both kinds.