Dragons in the Waters | Setting
Dragons in the Waters opens at the port of Charleston, South Carolina, but much of the action occurs aboard the Orion. The setting moves from civilization into the savagery of the Venezuelan jungle, and finally to the idyllic village of the Quiztanos, where a tribal people live in harmony with the land and water around them.
Flashback scenes and stories-within-stories tell of the poverty-stricken life Simon and his Aunt Leonis led in South Carolina. These stories bring out keen memories of the Civil War and the bitter effects of Reconstruction in the South. The true...
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