This chapter includes a sentence that I have quoted twice before for good reason:
"Meanwhile Tigeries were hunting through hills where wind soughed in waves across forests, and surf burst under three moons upon virgin islands." (p. 214)
Fulfilling a dream of every teenage reader of juvenile adventure fiction, Diana Crowfeather ran away from home and school and:
"...passed her life among Seafolk and Tigeries." (ibid.)
In Diana Crowfeather, we summarized the history that had led to Diana being born on Imhotep. It was a curious mixture of events that we had already known - Flandry on Starkad - and of others that were new to us - Maria Crowfeather coming from Atheia.
In A Sense Of Adventure, I listed works by Heinlein, Blish, Lewis, Anderson and Stirling that convey a sense of adventure and specifically quoted "Meanwhile Tigeries..." Another work by Anderson that belongs on this list is the introduction to his Nicholas van Rijn story, "Hiding Place," which includes the quotation, "The world's great age begins anew..."
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Kaor, Paul!
If Diana had spent so much time among the Tigeriese in the low lands of Imhotep, she must have used a protective helmet with a pump of the kind needed for converting lowland atmosphere to what she could breath. We see no mention of Diana getting the fairly minor surgery needed for using a "reverse" model of the oxygill Targovi uses for breathing the kind of atmosphere humans need. The most likely explanation for that being she could not afford it, which was no surprise, given her somewhat irregular situation.
Ad astra! Sean
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