The Golden Gryphon Feather (The Kaphtu Trilogy - Book One) -- Richard Purtill

Condition:  Good, considering age.

Daw Books, 1979, Vintage Paperback - Fantasy - 160pp.

Chryseis was a princess in whom strange forces and ancient mysteries contended. But she herself had to work out that which confronted her when she was sent as tribute to the legendary isle of Kaphtu.

For in that dawnland kingdom, she found herself an object of contention between the human and the non-human forces that had long been in truce. Her major defence was to be the feather of a mythical monster which alone could guide her to an unguessable inheritance.

Book One of the Kaphtu Trilogy Chryseis' adventures take her to the legendary Isle of Kaphtu, where she enters an ancient world of Bull Leapers, gods and half-gods. 'A magical patching together of fact and myth and sorceries, until what comes clear is not of stone and timbers, but the soul of the place....

It's a book I wish I had written. It has magic; there are gods and mortals, and the kind of golden haze about it all which belongs to that age.' -C.J. Cherryh

'These pages bring our gods and mythological creatures back to us.' - Baryon. '

Purtill's version/vision of the Olympians is a fresh and interesting one, and their involvement with the story of the Minotaur, Minos, and Ariadne is equally so.' - Algis Budrys.

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