Dare - Philip Jose Farmer 1965 Quartet Book First UK Edition 1st Print Paperback

Dare - Farmer Philip Jose 1965 Quartet Books First Edition 1st Print Paperback

First edition of the first British printing 1965. Please review photos. Binding is tight and all pages are intact.

Quartet 31165-8

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Farmer takes his inspiration from the famous "lost" colony of Roanoke, Virginia, where the first white baby in North America, Virginia Dare, was born. He speculates that the colony may have been transferred to another world, together with a ship that also disappeared about this time (1588), and a large caravan described in Ibn Khulail's History of the Turks. All of these people are settled on a planet named Dare, the "second planet of a star classified as Tau Ceti by the moderns." The Roanoke colony lands on a continent named Avalon. Farmer then picks up the story with the Roanoke descendants. Dare is a world where such mythological creatures as dragons, werewolves, unicorns, and humanoids with horsetails still exist. The colonists have lived in relative pea