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Informationen zum Autor Matthew Dickerson is an author, a professor at Middlebury College in Vermont, a scholar of the writings of J. R. R. Tolkien and the fantastic fiction of C. S. Lewis, and an environmental journalist and outdoor writer. He is the author of numerous books, among them A Hobbit Journey: Discovering the Enchantment of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle Earth , which was short-listed for the Mythopoeic Society's Mythopoeic Scholarship Awards, and the coauthor of From Homer to Harry Potter: A Handbook on Myth and Fantasy ; Ents, Elves, and Eriador: The Environmental Vision of J. R. R. Tolkien ; and Narnia and the Fields of Arbol: The Environmental Vision of C. S. Lewis . He lives in Bristol, Vermont. Klappentext When Kristinge, a young monk at a monastery in southeastern France, discovers he is the son of a famous Frisian hero and king who died in battle six years earlier, he leaves the monastic life and sets out in search of his identity. Travelling with his old mentor Willimond, a monk originally of Lindisfarne, Kristinge's journey brings him first across France to Denmark to search of his mother, and eventually back to his native soil of Friesland.
