Anabasis: A Journey to the Interior: A Novel

by Ellen Gilchrist

Book Overview

Set in ancient Greece, a novel that explores a feisty slave girl's flight to liberation. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878058214
• ISBN13: 9780878058211
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 297 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Very entertaining

I also had to respond to the 1 star review. I have never read a Gilchrist book before, but am a huge fan of Stephen Pressfield's books and was inspired to read Green's and Kagin's accounts of the Greco-Persian and Peloponesian wars. I stumbled on this book by accident and found it to be tremendously entertaining. Yes, the characters might be developed more but I did not find this a serious distraction. I would compare it to Ursula LeGuin's Earthsea - some things are not fleshed out, but there are so many parts that are stunningly good that the book overall is quite worthwhile.

Worth reading if you're a Gilchrist fan

I'm writing this review partly because of the one-star review. My own view of the book is somewhat different. I have read all of Ellen Gilchrist's books and would say this one is not her best work, but still worth a read. As with other of her books, the social milieu and the relationships of the characters are where the interest and focus really lie. I have to believe she did plenty of research before writing this book because it mostly rings true. If you haven't read Gilchrist, you might want to give this one a try later, after you read Net of Jewels, or The Annunciation, or I Cannot Get You Close Enough.