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When the Dark One's forces attack Rand's encampment, Rand loses his nerve, escaping under the cover of battle. After a journey of soul-searching & self-discoveryTags
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Robert Jordan was born James Oliver Rigney Jr. on October 17, 1948 in Charleston, South Carolina. He received a B.S. in physics from The Citadel in 1974. He served two tours of duty in Vietnam with the U.S. Army and won The Distinguished Flying Cross, the Bronze Star and two Vietnamese Crosses of Gallantry. From 1974 to 1978, he worked for the show more U.S. Civil Service as a nuclear engineer. During the 1980's, he began writing several novels for the Conan the Barbarian series that was created in the 1930's by Robert E. Howard. He also wrote under many pseudonyms, which include the historical novels The Fallon Blood (1980), The Fallon Pride (1981) and The Fallon Legacy (1982) as Reagan O'Neal; and the western Cheyenne Riders (1982) as Jackson O'Reilly. He wrote articles for periodicals for the Library Journal, Fantasy Review and Science Fiction Review as Chang Lung. He was the author of the Wheel of Time series and The Towers of Midnight. He died on September 16, 2007 following a battle with cardiac amyloidosis. Jordan was cremated and his ashes buried in the churchyard of St. James Church in Goose Creek, outside Charleston. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Heyne Allgemeine Reihe (5031)
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The Wheel of Time, Boxed Set I, Books 1-3: The Eye of the World, The Great Hunt, The Dragon Reborn by Robert Jordan (indirect)
Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- The Road of Spears
- Original title
- The Dragon Reborn
- Alternate titles
- The Road of Spears (The Dragon Reborn ∙ Book 2 of 2) (The Dragon Reborn ∙ | Book 2 of 2)
- Original publication date
- 1991
- Original language
- English
- Disambiguation notice
- This is volume 2 of a 2-volume work that has been published previously as a single volume. It should not be combined with volume 1 or with the single-volume version (THE DRAGON REBORN).
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