Rick Vandaal (11 results)
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Seller: California Books, Miami, FL, U.S.A.California Books
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Published by Independently Published, 2026
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Published by Independently Published, 2026
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Seventy-four thousand years ago, a supervolcano erupted on the other side of the world. The sky above the Tibetan Plateau turned the wrong color. The stars blurred at their edges. The animals began to move.The Sky People read what the earth was telling them. They left.Descent is the first bo…ok in The Denisovans, a work of literary prehistoric fiction following a small band of Denisovans - the enigmatic ancient humans whose DNA survives today in the genomes of Melanesian and Aboriginal Australian peoples - as they descend from their highland homeland into an unknown world below the treeline. Their guide is a young woman named River-Born, who navigates not by instinct or bravado but by careful, patient reading of the land. Their most sacred possession is a hollow wooden vessel carrying an ember from the plateau fire they will never see again.This is not a story of conquest. It is a story of endurance - of what it means to carry a culture south when the sky that organized it has been left behind. The Denisovan identity of the characters is not cosmetic. It lives in the structure of the prose itself: in the silence that is the default, in the emotion rendered as behavior rather than thought, in the language of sky and river and fire that is the only vocabulary these people have for the things that matter most.Grounded in current paleogenomics and Pleistocene archaeology, and written in a prose register closer to literary fiction than adventure, Descent is the opening movement of a series that will span a thousand generations and end only when the last recognizable descendant of the Sky People looks up at the stars her ancestors named - and the words come to her as if from somewhere else entirely. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Independently Published, 2026
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Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Bensenville, IL, U.S.A.Grand Eagle Retail
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 74,000 years ago, the sky disappeared.When the Toba volcano tears open the world, a band of Denisovan people - the Sky People - lose the only home they have ever known. The plateau that shaped them, the stars that guided them, the language built entirely from sky: all of it darkens under ash… and silence.What remains is the ember. And the river running south.The River People follows River-Born - a young woman born at the edge of catastrophe, who has always known the sky was changing - as she leads her dwindling band down from the Tibetan highlands into a world of forest, flood, and first encounter. Ahead lie new ecosystems, unknown peoples, and the slow, irreversible work of becoming something different from what her ancestors were.This is not a story of conquest. It is a story of endurance - of a civilization carrying its memory southward one word at a time, adapting ceremony to new skies, teaching children the names of things that no longer exist.Written in precise, luminous prose rooted in the latest paleoanthropological science, The River People is the first volume of The Sky People Trilogy: an anthropological fiction spanning 14,000 years of prehistoric human experience, from the last Denisovans of the plateau to the first people of the sea.The sky gives direction. When the sky disappears, the people must find direction from within. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Independently Published, 2026
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 74,000 years ago, the sky disappeared.When the Toba volcano tears open the world, a band of Denisovan people - the Sky People - lose the only home they have ever known. The plateau that shaped them, the stars that guided them, the language built entirely from sky: all of it darkens under ash… and silence.What remains is the ember. And the river running south.The River People follows River-Born - a young woman born at the edge of catastrophe, who has always known the sky was changing - as she leads her dwindling band down from the Tibetan highlands into a world of forest, flood, and first encounter. Ahead lie new ecosystems, unknown peoples, and the slow, irreversible work of becoming something different from what her ancestors were.This is not a story of conquest. It is a story of endurance - of a civilization carrying its memory southward one word at a time, adapting ceremony to new skies, teaching children the names of things that no longer exist.Written in precise, luminous prose rooted in the latest paleoanthropological science, The River People is the first volume of The Sky People Trilogy: an anthropological fiction spanning 14,000 years of prehistoric human experience, from the last Denisovans of the plateau to the first people of the sea.The sky gives direction. When the sky disappears, the people must find direction from within. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by Ricky Vane, 2026
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Seller: AussieBookSeller, Truganina, VIC, AustraliaAussieBookSeller
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Seventy-four thousand years ago, a supervolcano erupted on the other side of the world. The sky above the Tibetan Plateau turned the wrong color. The stars blurred at their edges. The animals began to move.The Sky People read what the earth was telling them. They left.Descent is the first bo…ok in The Denisovans, a work of literary prehistoric fiction following a small band of Denisovans - the enigmatic ancient humans whose DNA survives today in the genomes of Melanesian and Aboriginal Australian peoples - as they descend from their highland homeland into an unknown world below the treeline. Their guide is a young woman named River-Born, who navigates not by instinct or bravado but by careful, patient reading of the land. Their most sacred possession is a hollow wooden vessel carrying an ember from the plateau fire they will never see again.This is not a story of conquest. It is a story of endurance - of what it means to carry a culture south when the sky that organized it has been left behind. The Denisovan identity of the characters is not cosmetic. It lives in the structure of the prose itself: in the silence that is the default, in the emotion rendered as behavior rather than thought, in the language of sky and river and fire that is the only vocabulary these people have for the things that matter most.Grounded in current paleogenomics and Pleistocene archaeology, and written in a prose register closer to literary fiction than adventure, Descent is the opening movement of a series that will span a thousand generations and end only when the last recognizable descendant of the Sky People looks up at the stars her ancestors named - and the words come to her as if from somewhere else entirely. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
Published by Ricky Vane, 2026
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Seller: CitiRetail, Stevenage, United KingdomCitiRetail
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Seventy-four thousand years ago, a supervolcano erupted on the other side of the world. The sky above the Tibetan Plateau turned the wrong color. The stars blurred at their edges. The animals began to move.The Sky People read what the earth was telling them. They left.Descent is the first bo…ok in The Denisovans, a work of literary prehistoric fiction following a small band of Denisovans - the enigmatic ancient humans whose DNA survives today in the genomes of Melanesian and Aboriginal Australian peoples - as they descend from their highland homeland into an unknown world below the treeline. Their guide is a young woman named River-Born, who navigates not by instinct or bravado but by careful, patient reading of the land. Their most sacred possession is a hollow wooden vessel carrying an ember from the plateau fire they will never see again.This is not a story of conquest. It is a story of endurance - of what it means to carry a culture south when the sky that organized it has been left behind. The Denisovan identity of the characters is not cosmetic. It lives in the structure of the prose itself: in the silence that is the default, in the emotion rendered as behavior rather than thought, in the language of sky and river and fire that is the only vocabulary these people have for the things that matter most.Grounded in current paleogenomics and Pleistocene archaeology, and written in a prose register closer to literary fiction than adventure, Descent is the opening movement of a series that will span a thousand generations and end only when the last recognizable descendant of the Sky People looks up at the stars her ancestors named - and the words come to her as if from somewhere else entirely. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by Ricky Vane
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Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, GermanyAHA-BUCH GmbH
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