Scarlet Feather

'In her stories of ancient Egypt, Joan Grant has proved her power of historical vision and her purity of style; in this totally different medium they are as strikingly shown' wrote the Daily Telegraph when Scarlet Feather, set in pre-Columban America, came out in 1945. An exciting and unusual love story, it is also call to arms for the emancipation of women and men trapped in traditional roles. Amessage of its time, it speaks as clearly to ours today. Piyanah, the heroine of Scarlet Feather, is a member of a Native American tribe that has strayed from its noble heritage. Her clairvoyant mother refuses to accept the tribe's restrictiveness, brutality, and sexual segregation, so Piyanah and her cousin Raki grow up as outsiders. When she learns that her father is Chief Na-ka-chek, Piyanah chooses to defy her people's traditions. Instead of learning the skills of a squaw alongside the other girls, she insists on undergoing the ordeals of a Brave, overcoming daunting physical and spiritual challenges. Meanwhile, her beloved Raki learns from the squaws, thereby gaining the knowledge and empath-ic abilities of women. If their education is successful, Piyanah and Raki will succeed the Chief as a pair-as long as they can pass the final series of ordeals that will prove them worthy of the Scarlet Feather. As a child growing up in Edwardian England, Joan Grant became aware of an astonishing ability to remember previous lifetimes and as an author professed her seven novels to be based on her personal recollections of other incarnations, male and female, in ancient civilisations.

Joan Grant

Avon/Books

Eyes of Horus

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

AVON.

Winged Pharaoh

Mehuen

Far Memory

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Corgi Book

Corgi Childrens

The sixth of Joan Grant's "Far Memory" novels, Return to Elysium is set in the second century BC among the islands of Ancient Greece as well as in Rome before its rise to imperial power.  Lucina of Greece was orphaned at a young age and brought up by foster parents. The story begins when she is 13 and is sent to a place called Elysium for study under the tutelage of her philosopher guardian. She is the only woman in Elysium and thought to be very unusual because of her superior intellect. Her life is a battle between cool reason and logic and her own intense psychic abilities. There is pain because her great strength has little outlet in a female life. She flees Elysium with two companions to the young city of Rome, considered by Greeks to be an inferior society. Some years are spent as priestess and oracle-giver in a temple until she escapes with a lover and retreats into marriage. But eventually Lucina returns to Elysium for a breath-taking ending.  As a child growing up in Edwardian England, Joan Grant became aware of an astonishing ability to remember previous lifetimes, and as an author professed her seven novels to be based on her personal recollections of other incarnations, male and female, in ancient civilisations.  "No novelist writing today possesses more completely what Henry James called 'the sense of the past'." Daily Telegraph

Return To Elysium

Corgi Books

Many Lifetimes

Denys Kelsey

Littlehampton Book Services Ltd.

Winged Pharaoh: A Far Memory Book [WINGED PHARAOH] [Paperback]

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

Overlook Duckworth+

Speaking from the Heart

Gerald Duckworth Co Ltd

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