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The encyclopedia of early Earth : a graphic novel / by Isabel Greenberg.

Summary:

Readers! This book is not a real encyclopedia! It an epic work of fiction, detailing the many tales of adventure of one lonely storyteller, on a quest for Enlightenment and True Love. This book contains many stories, big and small, about and pertaining to the following things: Gods, monsters, mad kings, wise old crones, shamans, medicine men, brothers and sisters, strife, mystery, bad science, worse geography, and did we already mention, true love? Critics are saying it is probably the best things since sliced bread. Maybe even since bread knives."-- Back cover.

A long time after the Big Bang, but long before giant reptiles first began to swim about the watery oceans of our planet, there is a little-known segment of Earth's history. This era, this unrecorded time, is known to those who study it as Early Earth. Isabel Greenberg has created an entire world, and populated it with gods, monsters - and humans, creations of the great god of Early Earth, BirdMan, and his two children, the Ravens, who delight in meddling in their lives.

"Before our history began, another now forgotten civilization thrived. The people who roamed Early Earth were much like us: curious, emotional, funny, ambitious, and vulnerable. In this series of illustrated and linked tales, Isabel Greenberg chronicles the explorations of a young man as he paddles from his home in the North Pole to the South Pole. There, he meets his true love, but their romance is ill-fated. Early Earth's unusual and finicky polarity means the lovers can never touch. As intricate and richly imagined as the work of Chris Ware, and leavened with a dry wit that rivals Kate Beaton's in "Hark! A Vagrant," Isabel Greenberg's debut will be a welcome addition to the thriving graphic novel genre."--From publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9780385678155 (hc) :
Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : chiefly ill. ; 30 cm.
Publisher: [Canada] : Bond Street Books, c2013.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Love in a very cold climate -- Part the first: The land of Nord. The three sisters of summer island -- Beyond the frozen sea -- The odyssey begins -- Part the second: Britanitarka. The great Dag -- Summer and winter -- Creation - Medicine man -- The storytellers -- Creation -- Dag and Hal -- The old lady and the giant -- The time of the giants -- The children of the mountain -- The long night -- Dead towns & ghost men -- Part the third: Migdal Bavel. Migdal Bavel -- The mapmaker of Migdal Bavel -- The Bible of Birdman: Genesis -- Bible of Birdman: Book of Kiddo, The great flood -- The tower of Migal Bavel -- The palace of whispers -- The gods #2 -- Book the fourth: the South Pole. The gods #3 -- Appendices. A brief history of time -- The Nords -- The 1001 varieties of snow -- The invisible hunter -- Britanitarka -- Bird & beasts from early earth -- The moonstone -- The plucked bird of Hoo.

Immediate Source of Acquisition Note:

Donation ; Marni Stanley ; 2024/7.