Location: United States
Member Since:
Sep. 19, 2011
Thomas Boyd
Biography
In contrast to his father who toiled for the same firm for forty-five years, Thomas Boyd spent his working life in a variety of endeavors: electronics, civil engineering, archaeology, urban planning, real estate and government. The most memorable of those were the two decades worth of summers excavating in Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Italy and Egypt on sites ranging from the Early Neolithic to the Late Roman periods.
Those summers brought occasional moments of consternation and amusement: one night, a pack of wild dogs had him trapped on a roof in rural Turkey; an Egyptian taxi driver once said he was a dead ringer for Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi; and then there was the time the police in a small Greek town held him overnight on the suspicion that he was too young to be able to afford the motorcycle he was riding.
He now lives with his wife and daughter near Puget Sound in Washington State (USA).
Those summers brought occasional moments of consternation and amusement: one night, a pack of wild dogs had him trapped on a roof in rural Turkey; an Egyptian taxi driver once said he was a dead ringer for Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi; and then there was the time the police in a small Greek town held him overnight on the suspicion that he was too young to be able to afford the motorcycle he was riding.
He now lives with his wife and daughter near Puget Sound in Washington State (USA).
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Books
The Glitter of Stone
by Thomas Boyd
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 57,690.
Language:
American English.
Published: July 17, 2014
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Categories:
Fiction » Historical » Ancient
The setting: an Aegean island in the fifth millennium BC, centuries before the people we know as Greeks arrived in this fabled land. Cornered by ruthless invaders and guided by signs sent by the Mother Goddess, a gritty islander is pushed to his limits in a quest to save his tribe from extinction. Their survival hinges on his ability to lead them over an unforgiving sea to a new and unknown land.