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Title: Shaman

Author: Robert Shea

Release Date: May 27, 2009 [EBook #28976]

Language: English

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SHAMAN

A NOVEL

"In _Shaman_ we live again an all but-forgotten
chapter of American history, replete with
adventure, violence, and eroticism--the compelling and often horrific
account of a collision between two cultures so different that one of
them has to be wiped off the face of the earth."

Gary Jennings
Author of _Aztec_

ROBERT SHEA

AUTHOR OF _SHIKE_

SHAMAN

_Also by Robert Shea_

THE ILLUMINATUS! TRILOGY
(with Robert Anton Wilson)

SHIKE

ALL THINGS ARE LIGHTS

THE SARACEN: LAND OF THE INFIDEL

THE SARACEN: THE HOLY WAR

SHAMAN

Robert Shea

BALLANTINE BOOKS
_New York_

Copyright (C) 1991 by Robert Shea
Map Copyright (C) 1991 by Random House, Inc.

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright
Conventions. Published in the United States by
Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, Inc.,
New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random
House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 90-93215

ISBN: 0-345-36048-6

Text design by Debby Jay
Map by Patrick O'Brien
Cover design by William Geller
Cover painting by Joe Burleson

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