I’m Richard Humphries, a teacher, traveler and writer. After growing up in New Jersey and graduating from university, I set out to see the world. I traveled the old hippie trail from Europe to India, crossed the Sahara, traveled up the Nile on a rust-bucket barge, and hitchhiked to Alaska, to name but a few journeys. The … Read More about About the Author
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It’s 1363 CE. The once-mighty Mongol Empire is crumbling, especially on its eastern flank. Meanwhile, a seven-man caravan follows the Silk Road towards and beyond Karakorum. It includes Sir John Mandeville, fugitive travel writer and surgeon; Friar Bartolo de Collazo, a priggish, scolding Franciscan; and Rabban bar Turfan, a quick-thinking Nestorian Uyghur merchant of flexible morals. North of Karakorum, they’re robbed by murderous bandits who slaughter friar Vincenzo and two drovers. Still shadowed by the bandits, the four survivors desperately seek safety and shelter in the wintry hills of eastern Siberia. However, the bandits catch and kill the caravan’s Evenki guide Ensukh, leaving the writer, friar, and merchant trapped inside a frigid cave. A fierce she-wolf blocks their only way out. Solid ice entombs the three and 655 years pass. Awakened in 2018 with the help of Osor, an indigenous Siberian healer, they learn (read more)… Available at AMAZON WORLDWIDE global marketplaces (click on image for Amazon USA link)