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Informationen zum Autor Alan Moore is widely regarded as the best and most influential writer in the history of comics. His seminal works include Miracleman and Watchmen , for which he won the coveted Hugo Award. Never one to limit himself in form or content, Moore has also published novels, Voice of the Fire and Jerusalem , and an epic poem, The Mirror of Love. Four of his ground-breaking graphic novels— From Hell , Watchmen , V for Vendetta , and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen —have been adapted to the silver screen. Moore currently resides in Northampton, England. Klappentext Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill steer their fifty-year-long Nemo trilogy to its pulse-pounding and heart-wrenching conclusion. In a world where all the fictions ever written coalesce into a rich mosaic! it's 1975. Janni Dakkar! pirate queen of Lincoln Island and head of the fabled Nemo family! is eighty years old and beginning to display a tenuous grasp on reality. Pursuing shadows from her past - or her imagination - she embarks on what may be a final voyage down the vastness of the Amazon! a last attempt to put to rest the blood-drenched spectres of old. With allies and adversaries old and new! we accompany an aging predator on her obsessive trek into the cultural landscape of a strange new continent! from the ruined city of Yu-Atlanchi to the fabulous plateau of Maple White Land. As the dark threads in her narrative are drawn into an inescapable web! Captain Nemo leads her hearse-black Nautilus in a desperate raid on horrors believed dead for decades. Through the exotic spectacle of an imagined South America! Moore and O'Neil guide their readers through this epic final act! borne upon a River of Ghosts. Zusammenfassung 1975. Janni Dakkar, pirate queen of Lincoln Island and head of the fabled Nemo family, is eighty years old and beginning to display a tenuous grasp on reality. Pursuing shadows from her past - or her imagination - she embarks on what may be a final voyage down the Amazon, a last attempt to put to rest the blood-drenched spectres of old....
