title: The Guide To The Flying Island
author:  Lee Upton 
description: Lee Upton has long been one of my favorite poets and now, with <I>The Guide to the Flying Island</I>, she&#39;s become one of my favorite fiction writers, too. This is a beautifully written, one&#45;of&#45;a&#45;kind book, a spooky, lovely novella about tour guides and missing nuns and monks, a wry and deeply felt story of love and obsession (if there&#39;s a difference). I couldn&#39;t put it down, and once I&#39;d finished it, I couldn&#39;t wait to read it again.
zlib_text: THE WARLORD OF THE AIR
  
  
  by Michael Moorcock
  
  
  v1.0
  
  
  BOOK ONE
  
  
  HOW AN ENGLISH ARMY OFFICER ENTERED THE WORLD OF THE FUTURE AND WHAT HE SAW
  THERE
  
  
  CHAPTER I The Opium Eater of Rowe Island
  
  
  IN THE SPRING of 1903, on the advice of my physician, I had occasion to visit
  that remote and beautiful fragment of land in the middle of the Indian Ocean
  which I shall call Rowe Island. I had been overworking and had contracted what
  the quacks now like to term 'exhaustion' or even 'nervous debility'. In other
  words I was completely whacked out and needed a rest a long way away from
  anywhere. I had a small interest in the mining company which is the sole
  industry of the island (unless you count Religion!) and I knew that its
  climate was ideal, as was its location-one of the healthiest places in the
  world and fifteen hundred miles from any form of civilisation. So I purchased
  my ticket, packed my boxes, bade farewell to my nearest and dearest, and
  boarded the liner which would take me to Jakarta. F