title: From The Two Rivers: The Eye of the World, Book 1 (Wheel of Time (Starscape))
author:  Robert Jordan 
description: Starscape, a new imprint, launches a list of science fiction and fantasy titles aimed at readers aged 10 and up, adapted from acclaimed adult titles (see details in Children's Books, Jan. 21). Among them are Robert Jordan's From the Two Rivers and To the Blight, adapted into two volumes from his adult title The Eye of the World: The Wheel of Time, Book 1. Kid-friendly additions include a new prologue, larger print, a glossary and a smattering of illustrations. <br />Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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  ## Chapter 1
  
  ![Gulls and Star](../Graphics/gulls_star.gif)
  
  #### _To Keep the Bargain_
  
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  The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become
  legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age
  that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an
  Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose above the great mountainous
  island of Tremalking. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither
  beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was _a_
  beginning.
  
  East the wind blew across Tremalking, where the fair-skinned Amayar farmed
  their fields, and made fine glass and porcelain, and followed the peace of the
  Water Way. The Amayar ignored the world beyond their scattered islands, for
  the Water Way taught that this world was only illusion, a mirrored reflection
  of belief, yet some