... have found out from a book review that this book that it is "a living fossil: a serious, enjoyable, multi-layered novel of ideas". Jill Paton-Walsh starts her chapter by introducing the Nevados, ice shepherds working in austere condition and cold weather. She creates the image and atmosphere of the mountains very clearly for the reader. She sets a gloomy ... atmosphere, surrounded with a "scarf of cloud", far away from civilization, an atmosphere which created uneasiness. The vegetation of lichens and tiny plants on the ... the monster was" Paton-Walsh has ended the chapter just before r...

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