Lord of the Horizon, Joan Grant
Lord of the Horizon, Joan Grant
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Lord of the Horizon
A Far Memory Book

Author: Joan Grant

Narrator: Mil Nicholson

Unabridged: 11 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/17/2019


Synopsis

The fourth of Joan Grant’s “Far Memory” novels, Lord of the Horizon, the sequel to Eyes of Horus, is set in Egypt at the close of the dark XIth dynasty and is a profound commentary on the power of fear and the unlimited ability of light to shatter it.Lord of the Horizon is the story, told in the first person, of Ra-ab Hotep, heir to the Nomarch of the Oryx. Ra-ab is twenty-one as the story begins. The dawn for which Ra-ab and the Watchers of the Horizon fought in Eyes of Horus has come, but to “Send Fear into Exile,” as the Watchers’ password promised, proves difficult.The new pharaoh, Amenemhet, marries the daughter of the pharaoh he deposed, thereby enabling her mother, a Babylonian by birth, to retain influence. Like a spider, she spins a web of intrigue and manipulation that threatens to plunge Egypt back into darkness. Her prize is Amenemhet’s son Senusert, who will one day be pharaoh himself.Finally, the pharaoh realizes what has occurred and calls on his friend Ra-ab Hotep, hero of the revolution, to take Senusert to his home in the Oryx and help him grow up properly, so he will be ready to fulfill his duties as pharaoh. But the Babylonian is not yet defeated. She continues to challenge Amenemhet’s rule and authority, leading inexorably to the final showdown.Joan Grant wrote several “Far Memory” novels, based on what she believes are memories from her previous lifetimes in ancient civilizations.

About Mil Nicholson

Mil Nicholson performs audiobooks at her studio in the quiet Appalachian Mountains. She has narrated a series of fantasy novels by Dave Duncan, a western romance series by Janet Dailey for Audible, and Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey for Blackstone Audio, among many others, and has recently finished recording her ninth novel by Charles Dickens for Librivox. She also voices the works of the philosophers of the seventeenth century at www.EarlyModernTexts.com. Her vocal range includes both male and female of all ages, specializing in the accents of the British Isles. Mil has been acclaimed in particular for her rendering of the many voices in Dickens, and for breathing life into his sometimes long monologues. Websites: www.MilNicholson.com and www.Act2Sc3.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Joseph

Loved this book for the principles it contains, the beautiful prose, and the fact that it's in story form. It's not a carefully crafted plot. The writer lingers over what interested her. It's page-turning quality is in the truths it contains.......more

Goodreads review by Juliet

Read these books in my early teens in one voracious sitting during a school holiday. The living breathing world Grant creates have stayed with me for fifty years, and it's been a treat to re-read them.......more

Goodreads review by Rose

Will Ra-ab, and those who work with him, manage to "Send Fear into Exile"? Once again, Joan Grant has written her memoir... Re-living, and helping us readers to re-live, another story of a previous lifetime. From her memoir from this lifetime, "Far Memory," I learned that she found a good practitioner......more

Goodreads review by Mike

I like Joseph Downey's review, it says what I felt was most important about the book. I think it's an accurate presentation of the culture at that time, mixed with her metaphysical beliefs, which whil maybe not 100% accurate are probably pretty darn close, imo. I'll definitely be reading more by Joa......more


Quotes

“Ra-ab, the Warrior, heir of the Peace of God…speaks with a voice that those who today are seeking illumination may welcome as the voice of a friend.” Times Literary Supplement