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Title: Read Cowan's bio...
Review: ...for the first clue that this book is new age-eco/spiritual claptrap masquerading as historical fiction. I typically would not bother to give a book a bad review, but in this case I felt like I had been tricked into reading it. If you liked "The Celestine Prophecy", or if you have an interest in aboriginal cultures, you might buy into this book. I myself had to laugh at the feeble ironies and trite philosophizing wrapped up in cloying prose. Cowan has a few favorite "serious fiction" words that he uses over and over again, adding to the dizzying repetitiousness of these loosely connected stories. Cowan's ironic insistence that he is telling a "true story" is pointless and serves only to obscure whatever fact is present. I will say that premise here is quite interesting, but in it's execution Cowan swings big and misses.
