222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

This teaching novel is an archaeological suspense story set in northeast China at a site that is called the Goddess Temple. Clara, protagonist of Nelson’s Spirit Bird Journey, begins work at an excavation at the Temple, only to discover the problems of contemporary looting, government meddling, and excavation interpersonal dynamics. Nelson’s story also describes the lifeways of the Neolithic... Read more
Prologue, Chapters 1- 46, Epilogue

Biography

Sarah Milledge Nelson

"The people of the ancient past come alive through Nelson's novel . . . Jade Dragon is a good read-and parts are extraordinarily rich in both emotion and ethnographic detail." -Adrian Praetzellis, Asian Perspectives