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Woods Wizard
Posted 2016-01-05 1:45 PM (#12295)
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A book I read a long time ago. Pre1970 most likely. Basics that I remember:

The main character is a Yeti-like being, a shaman of his tribe. His tribe is wiped out; he is the last. He, like other shamans, keeps the stories of his tribe on a knotted cord. At the end of the book, he finds a different species also nearly wiped out which he adopts to teach them the legends and stories of his people. The main character lives in a polar region.

Anybody know a book like that?
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Posted 2016-01-17 11:54 PM (#12418 - in reply to #12295)
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Sounds familiar and, from my patchy memory, vaguely reminiscent of Robert Silverberg's At Winter's End?
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Woods Wizard
Posted 2016-01-18 1:22 PM (#12421 - in reply to #12295)
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It might be but doesn't sound quite right. I might buy it on Kindle just to check it out. That's for responding!
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Simulacrum
Posted 2016-01-18 4:18 PM (#12422 - in reply to #12421)
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No worries. On the surface descriptions may look a bit different but I seem to recall similar elements of it being based around a tribe of ape-like creatures in a frozen world, a protagonist that is the tribe's chronicler with most of said tribe being wiped out at one point and his going on to live/primarily interact with another species.

Either way hopefully you won't be disappointed as it (and the sequel) are good reads and some of the better late-period Silverberg.
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Woods Wizard
Posted 2016-01-18 6:05 PM (#12423 - in reply to #12422)
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Simulacrum - 2016-01-18 4:18 PM

No worries. On the surface descriptions may look a bit different but I seem to recall similar elements of it being based around a tribe of ape-like creatures in a frozen world, a protagonist that is the tribe's chronicler with most of said tribe being wiped out at one point and his going on to live/primarily interact with another species.

Either way hopefully you won't be disappointed as it (and the sequel) are good reads and some of the better late-period Silverberg.


Thanks for your help! I do have Star of Gypsies


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Posted 2016-01-28 8:52 PM (#12516 - in reply to #12295)
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Woods Wizard - 2016-01-06 6:45 AM
A book I read a long time ago. Pre1970 most likely. Basics that I remember: The main character is a Yeti-like being, a shaman of his tribe. His tribe is wiped out; he is the last. He, like other shamans, keeps the stories of his tribe on a knotted cord. At the end of the book, he finds a different species also nearly wiped out which he adopts to teach them the legends and stories of his people. The main character lives in a polar region. Anybody know a book like that?

It looks as though your question was posted over on another SF forum and someone there came up with an answer: 

sounds like Frostworld and Dreamfire by John Morressy

synopsis of Frostworld and Dreamfire by John Morressy  

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