Tetrarch (Well of Echoes)

Tetrarch

I
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was born in Bathurst in 1950, and educated at Chevalier College and the University of Sydney, where he took a PhD in marine science.

After working as an environmental project manager, Ian set up his own consulting firm in 1986, carrying out studies for clients in Australia and overseas. He has worked in many countries in the Asia-Pacific region. An expert in marine pollution, Ian has developed some of Australia’s national guidelines for the protection of the oceanic environment.

Ian Irvine lives with his family in northern New South Wales. His previous fantasy quartet,
The View from the Mirror
, has also been published in the UK and the US, and translated into European and Asian languages. He is currently working on
Scrutator
, the next volume of
The Well of Echoes
.

Ian can be contacted at [email protected]

Other books by Ian Irvine

The Last Albatross

T
HE
T
HREE
W
ORLDS
S
ERIES

T
HE
V
IEW FROM THE
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Q
UARTET

A Shadow on the Glass

The Tower on the Rift

Dark is the Moon

The Way between the Worlds

T
HE
W
ELL OF
E
CHOES

Geomancer

IAN IRVINE

A T
ALE OF
T
HE
T
HREE
W
ORLDS

Volume Two of T
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CHOES

VIKING

Viking

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First published by Penguin Books Australia, 2002

Text copyright © Ian Irvine, 2002

Maps copyright © Ian Irvine, 2002

The moral right of the author has been asserted.

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