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Longtusk Book
Stephen Baxter's "Mammoth" sequence is frequently compared to Watership Down, with woolly mammoths rather than rabbits undertaking heroic quests and spinning their own rich mythology. Silverhair (1999) followed the hardships of a mammoth family that survived into modern times. Now that book's heroine Silverhair remembers the much-embroidered legends of distant ancestor Longtusk, a mammoth who did great deeds as the Ice Age dwindled in 16,000 BC. Of course the real Longtusk doesn't quite match the myth, and we first meet him as a sulkily egotistic 12 year old: He was Longtusk! The greatest hero in the world! Why couldn't anybody see that? Fate has a tricky way of giving you what you want, but the path to heroism is long and painful. Separated from his family group by headstrong folly … read more...
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