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The Holy Road

By: Michael Blake
Narrated by: George Guidall
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In The Holy Road, sequel to Dances with Wolves, master storyteller Michael Blake at long last continues the saga. Eleven years have passed sub Lieutenant John Dunbar became Dances with Wolves and married Stands with a Fist, a white-born woman raised as a Comanche from early childhood. With their three children, they live peacefully in the village of Ten Bears. But there is unease in the air, caused by increased reports of violent confrontations with white soldiers, who want to drive the Comanches onto reservations.

Disquiet turns to horror, and then to rage, when a band of white rangers descends on Ten Bear's village, slaughtering half its inhabitants and abducting Stands With A Fist and her infant daughter. The three surviving great warriors - Wind in His Hair, Kicking Bird, and Dances with Wolves - decide they must go to war with the white invaders. At the same time, Dances With Wolves realizes that only he can rescue his wife and child. Told with the same sweep, insight, and majesty that have made Dances with Wolves a worldwide phenomenon, The Holy Road is an epic story of courage and honor.

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Loved this book. A superb sequel to Dances with Wolves by the master storyteller Michael Blake. Well written and narrated.

Holy Road

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It’s a sad tale of the Comanche people with great insight into their perceptions of the cultural gulf

The vocal style was very suited to this sort of tale almost like an old timer sitting around a fire recounting memories

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The Holy Road is a fantastic sequel to Dances with Wolves, mostly the same characters, some years hence, but primarily focused on Indian life and perspective and the change that cannot be stopped, contained or negotiated with.

It is a story that expands the big sky/big land tale of its predecessor and depicts two cultures with their own truths and goals clashing so fiercely to be likened to a snake devouring its own tail.

Both uplifting in its depiction of a proud and powerful nation living with the earth (eco-friendly in the true sense) and a newly forming, numerous powerful nation looking to expand and dominate all it surveys.
Brilliantly narrated.
Excellent yale.

Two cultures / Two truths

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