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The Great Hunt

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1990
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2011
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Prologue - In the Shadow
1 - The Flame of Tar Valon
2 - The Welcome
3 - Friends and Enemies
4 - Summoned
5 - The Shadow in Shienar
6 - Dark Prophecy
7 - Blood Calls Blood
8 - The Dragon Reborn
9 - Leavetakings
10 - The Hunt Begins
11 - Glimmers of the Pattern
12 - Woven in the Pattern
13 - From Stone to Stone
14 - Wolfbrother
15 - Kinslayer
16 - In the Mirror of Darkness
17 - Choices
18 - To the White Tower
19 - Beneath the Dagger
20 - Saidin
21 - The Nine Rings
22 - Watchers
23 - The Testing
24 - New Friends and Old Enemies
25 - Cairhien
26 - Discord
27 - The Shadow in the Night
28 - A New Thread in the Pattern
29 - Seanchan
30 - Daes Dae'mar
31 - On the Scent
32 - Dangerous Words
33 - A Message from the Dark
34 - The Wheel Weaves
35 - Stedding Tsofu
36 - Among the Elders
37 - What Might Be
38 - Practice
39 - Flight from the White Tower
40 - Damane
41 - Disagreements
42 - Falme
43 - A Plan
44 - Five Will Ride Forth
45 - Blademaster
46 - To Come Out of the Shadow
47 - The Grave Is No Bar to My Call
48 - First Claiming
49 - What Was Meant to Be
50 - After
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Copyright © 1990 by The Bandersnatch Group, Inc.
This book is dedicated to Lucinda Culpin, Al Dempsey, Tom Doherty, Susan England, Dick Gallen, Cathy Grooms, Marisa Grooms, Wilson and Janet Grooms, John Jarrold, the Johnson City Boys (Mike Leslie, Kenneth Loveless, James D. Lund, Paul R. Robinson), Karl Lundgren, William McDougal, the Montana Gang (Eldon Carter, Ray Grenfell, Ken Miller, Rod Moore, Dick Schmidt, Ray Sessions, Ed Wildey, Mike Wildey, and Sherman Williams), Charlie Moore, Louisa Cheves Popham Raoul, Ted and Sydney Rigney, Robert A. T. Scott, Bryan and Sharon Webb, and Heather Wood.

They came to my aid when God walked across the water and the true Eye of the World passed over my house.

-Robert Jordan
Charleston, SC
February 1990
The man who called himself Bors, at least in this place, sneered at the low murmuring that rolled around the vaulted chamber like the soft gabble of geese.
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Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time.
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The rising sun pushed its crimson edge above the horizon and sent long shadows down the cobblestone streets of Falme toward the harbor. A sea breeze bent the smoke of breakfast cook fires inland from the chimneys. Only the early risers were already out of doors, their breath making steam in the morning cold. Compared to the crowds that would fill the streets in another hour, the town seemed nearly empty.

Sitting on an upended barrel in front of a still-closed ironmonger’s shop, Nynaeve warmed her hands under her arms and surveyed her army. Min sat on a doorstep across the way, swathed in her Seanchan cloak and eating a wrinkled plum, and Elayne in her fleece coat huddled at the edge of an alley just down the street from her. A large sack, pilfered from the docks, lay neatly folded beside Min. My army, Nynaeve thought grimly. But there isn’t anybody else.

She caught sight of a sul’dam and a damane climbing the street, a yellow-haired woman wearing the bracelet and a dark woman the collar, both yawning sleepily. The few Falmen sharing the street with them averted their eyes and gave them a wide berth. As far as she could see down toward the harbor, there was not another Seanchan. She did not turn her head the other way. Instead, she stretched and shrugged as if working cold shoulders before settling back as she had been.

Min tossed her half-eaten plum aside, glanced casually up the street, and leaned back on the doorpost. The way was clear there, too, or she would have put her hands on her knees. Min had started rubbing her hands nervously, and Nynaeve realized that Elayne was now bouncing eagerly on her toes.

If they give us away, I’ll thump both their heads. But she knew if they were discovered, it would be the Seanchan who would say what happened to all three of them. She was all too aware that she had no real notion of whether what she planned would work or not. It could easily be her own failure that would give them away. Once again she resolved that if anything went wrong, she would somehow pull attention to herself while Min and Elayne escaped. She had told them to run if anything went wrong, and let them think she would run, too. What she would do then, she did not know. Except I won’t let them take me alive. Please, Light, not that.

Sul’dam and damane came up the street until they were bracketed by the three waiting women. A dozen Falmen walked wide of the linked pair.

Nynaeve gathered all of her anger. Leashed Ones and Leash Holders. They had put their filthy collar on Egwene’s neck, and they would put it on hers, and Elayne’s, if they could. She had made Min tell her how sul’dam enforced their will. She was sure Min had kept some back, the worst, but what she told was enough to heat Nynaeve to white-hot fury. In an instant a white blossom on a black, thorny branch had opened to light, to saidar, and the One Power filled her. She knew there was a glow around her, for those who could see it. The pale-skinned sul’dam gave a start, and the dark damane's mouth fell open, but Nynaeve gave them no chance. It was only a trickle of the Power that she channeled, but she cracked it, a whip snapping a dust mote out of the air.

The silver collar sprang open and clattered to the cobblestones. Nynaeve heaved a sigh of relief even as she leaped to her feet.

 

Added: 31-Jan-2015
Last Updated: 27-Apr-2022

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Women often seemed to leave things unsaid, and in his limited experience it was what they did not say that proved the most trouble.

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 28-Dec-2003
Macmillan Audio
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28-Dec-2003
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$39.99
Length:
26 hrs 36 min
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United States
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English
Credits:
Michael Kramer  - Narration
Kate Reading  - Narration
From audible.com:

The Wheel of Time turns and ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the age that gave it birth returns again.

For centuries, gleemen have told the tales of The Great Hunt of the Horn. So many tales about each of the Hunters, and so many Hunters to tell of. Now, the Horn itself is found: the Horn of Valere long thought only legend, the Horn which will raise the dead heroes of the ages.

And it is stolen.
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 17-Nov-2009
Tor Books
Kindle e-Book
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Date Issued:
17-Nov-2009
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Cover Price:
$8.99
Pages*:
721
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Once
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1)   1 Dec 2011 - 1 Dec 2011
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Internal ID:
1683
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ISBN-13:
978-1-429-96013-7
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Kekai Kotaki - Frontispiece
Ellisa Mitchell - Map
Ellisa Mitchell - Illustrator
Matthew C Nielsen - Illustrator
From amazon.com:

The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age, an Age of Prophecy, the World and Time themselves hang in the balance. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.

For centuries, gleemen have told the tales of The Great Hunt of the Horn. So many tales about each of the Hunters, and so many Hunters to tell of... Now the Horn itself is found: the Horn of Valere long thought only legend, the Horn which will raise the dead heroes of the ages. And it is stolen.
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Notes and Comments:
I started this one just after reading The Eye of the World.

First Edition: November 1990
First E-book Edition: November 2009

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Author(s)

Robert Jordan  
Birth: 17 Oct 1948 Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Death: 16 Sep 2007 Charleston, South Carolina, USA

Notes:
From About the Author in The Eye of the World:

Robert Jordan was born in 1948 in Charleston, South Carolina. He taught himself to read when he was four with the incidental aid of a twelve-years-older brother, and was tackling Mark Twain and Jules Verne by five. He was a graduate of The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, with a degree in physics. He served two tours in Vietnam with the U.S. Army; among his decorations are the Distinguished Flying Cross with bronze oak leaf cluster, the Bronze Star with “V” and bronze oak leaf cluster, and two Vietnamese Gallantry Crosses with Palm. A history buff, he also wrote dance and theater criticism. He enjoyed the outdoor sports of hunting, fishing, and sailing, and the indoor sports of poker, chess, pool, and pipe collecting. He began writing in 1977 and continued until his death on September 16, 2007.

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