The Huntsman Summary
Douglas Hill

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The Huntsman Summary

Although The Huntsman is basically the tale of a teen-age boy's courageous quest to rescue his foster father and sister from their alien captors, the past Hill creates for the events in the story inspires thought about human characteristics and values. Young Finn Ferral's environment is the world some three hundred years after a global fire.

The story of the "Forgotten Time," when billions of people inhabited the earth, is passed on to...

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