First Edition, 644 pages

English language

Published Nov. 8, 1984 by Viking.

ISBN:
9780670691999
OCLC Number:
779371736

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Jack Sawyer, twelve years old, is about to begin a most fantastic journey—an exalting, terrifying quest for the Talisman. Only the Talisman can save his dying mother and defeat the enemy who is out to destroy them. But to reach his goal, Jack must make his way not only across the breadth of the United States but through the wondrous and menacing Territories as well.

The Territories lie as firmly in the imagination as Atlantis or Oz; they are as real as every reader's own vision of that parallel world which can only be evoked in the mind's mysterious eye. In the Territories Jack finds a world little removed from the Earth's own Dark Ages: though the air is so sweet and clear a man can smell a radish being pulled from the ground a mile away, a life can be snuffed out instantly in the continuing struggle between good …

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Subjects

  • Quests (Expeditions) -- Fiction
  • Mothers and sons -- Fiction
  • Talismans -- Fiction
  • Boys -- Fiction