BookRags.com Literature Guides Literature
Guides
Criticism & Essays Criticism &
Essays
Questions & Answers Questions &
Answers
Lesson Plans Lesson
Plans
My Bibliography Periodic Table U.S. Presidents Shakespeare Sonnet Shake-Up
Research Anything:        
History | Encyclopedias | Films | News | Create a Bibliography | More... Login | Register | Help


The White Stag Study Guide

Print-Friendly  Order the PDF version  Order the RTF version
by Kate Seredy
About 9 pages (2,773 words)
The White Stag Summary

Bookmark and Share Know this work well? Help others and get FREE products!

Setting

The story begins somewhere east of the Ural Mountains of Central Asia in the dawn of prehistory, when the game deserts the ancestral hunting grounds of the Hun-Magyar tribes. The tribes are forced to migrate westward in search of better hunting grounds. The people leave the headlands and snowcapped mountains of the Altain-Ula and slowly wend their way westward, following the mythical White Stag to. the promised land foretold to them by their god Hadur.

For fifteen years the tribe camps alongside a beautiful mountain lake, until the game disappears and a drought forces them to move once again. The people's wanderings take them steadily away from Asu (Asia), the Land of the Rising Sun, and into Ereb (Europe), the Land of the Setting Sun. They constantly wage war with other tribes.....

This is a free excerpt of 132 words. This section contains 259 words. This Short Guide contains 2,773 words (approx. 9 pages at 300 words per page).

Read the rest of this Short Guide with our The White Stag Access Pass.

Ask any question on The White Stag and get it answered FAST!
Answer questions in BookRags Q&A and earn points toward
discounted or even FREE Study Guides and other BookRags products!
Learn more about BookRags Q&A
Copyrights
The White Stag from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.

Join BookRagslearn moreJoin BookRags




About BookRags | Customer Service | Report an Error | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy