The Hunt Begins

by Robert Jordan

The Wheel of Time (Split Editions — Book 2 (Part 1 of 2))

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Since they were boys, Rand and his friends have heard the tales of the Great Hunt of the Horn. Fabulous tales of hunters and of a legendary horn that can raise the dead heroes of the ages. But no sooner is the horn found then it is stolen. And in order to save Mat's life, Rand must find it.

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Robert Jordan
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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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Risheden, Jan (Translator)
Sinkkonen, Marja (Translator)

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The Wheel of Time
Robert Jordan
16 works (Split Editions — Book 2 (Part 1 of 2))

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Canonical title
The Hunt Begins
Original title
The Hunt Begins
Original publication date
1990
Original language
English
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This is volume 1 of a 2-volume work that has been published previously as a single volume. It should not be combined with volume 2 (New Threads in the Pattern) or with the single-volume version (The Great Hunt).

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Fiction and Literature, Teen
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800 — Literature & rhetoric Literature, rhetoric & criticism Literature (Belles-lettres) and rhetoric
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PS3560 .O7617 .G74 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1961-
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