Bill Copeland

Gebundenes Buch

Relic the Copper Ax

The Tragic Story of Otzi the Iceman

Beschreibung

The story is set in central Europe 5300 years ago. It ranges from the northern Alps of Italy to the eastern lands along the Danube River to the earliest European Bronze Age Civilization, the Vinca. Otzi is the chieftain of a south Tyrollean late Stone Age tribe scrounging for a living in the high alps. To support his village and family he travels on foot to trade with the people on the north side of the mountains. He returns after a long trip to his village with a big backpack full of goods. But his wife Mara tells him that the wheat crop has failed. He and his son Anise must hunt to get through the winter. As a youth he took a trip down the Danube to Vinca lands where he met his uncle and family who prospered raising goats, farming, and hunting. There he meets his first wife and must join the hunt for huge wild bison to win her. From the Vinca he learns the secret of smelting copper and is given small ore stones to help him find more. He brought his bride back up the Danube but she died during the birth of his son Anise. Desperate to find a way to support his family after the failed wheat crop, he searched the neighborhood for copper ore but found none. A northerner agrees to get copper from Tuscany in the south in trade for goats. With the good ore he is able to make copper. But the shinny metal has never been seen before and the knowledge of it is regarded as evil, and results in a fight to save his life from the judgement of the shaman.

Autor

Bill was born in Spring Valley in the foothills of San Diego. The valley spring ran clear all year and flowed into the creek near his house. In the creek he caught crawdads, pollywogs, frogs, and minnows and cooled his feet in the hot summers. Bill explored county hiking trails, rabbit trails, and even very narrow little bug trails that snuck through the grass and roots of the chaparral. In the clear skies of Southern California, he came to know the motions of the stars, the Moon, and planets. He realized his ancestors saw the same sky and depended on the sky to know the months and seasons. He loved to imagine what his life might have been thousands of years ago, hunting, fighting for survival, and scrounging to live by his wits as a member of tribe like Otzi's.He went to San Diego State College, studying science and graduating with a BA in Math. He went to work at Univac and worked on the Apollo project at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston. When he returned to California, he took a MS Cybernetics degree program at San Jose State College. He worked as a systems engineer for pioneering companies in Silicon Valley, including Ampex, Daisy Systems, HP, and SAP. He also traveled to Mexico, Canada, Europe, Morocco, and India.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wordhouse Book Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 158
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 389g
• ISBN-13: 9781685472054
• ISBN-10: 1685472052
• Artikelnr.: 67628945