Notes
A Journeys of the Catechist novel.

First part of Journeys of the Catechist trilogy.

The image opposite and the blurb below are from the 3rd printing of the 1999 Aspect/Warner paperback edition, ISBN 0446606979. Cover illustration by Keith Parkinson.

Publisher’s Blurb – Lower Cover
"ONE OF THE MOST CONSISTENTLY INVENTIVE AND FERTILE WRITERS OF SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY."—The Times (London)

Author of the multimillion-copy bestselling Spellsinger series, Alan Dean Foster now creates a triumph of boundless wonder and unending imagination. The three-volume Journeys of the Catechist is the quest of a hero who questions every person and animal he meets, in a world where the impossible is normal and virtue is the greatest weapon a champion can possess.

THROUGH THE UNSTABLE LANDS

Etjole Ehomba is a herdsman whose simple sense of honor demands that he fulfill the dying wish of a shipwrecked stranger. Even though his promise means that Ehomba—armed only with a bone knife and a sky-metal sword—must walk the length of a world, cross lands of unceasing peril, sail an impassable ocean, vanquish an unstoppable evil, and rescue a woman he has never met for the sake of a dead man he did not know.

No wizard or warrior would attempt such a mad quest. But a man who poses questions to everything he meets may find answers that no wizard could imagine...

"INVENTIVE AND PACKED WITH FLAVORSOME INCIDENT."—Kirkus Reviews

Look for the second adventure in the Journeys of the Catechist — Into the Thinking Kingdoms, from Warner Aspect