Soyala's Saga: Volume 1 of 2

Rich has been interested in reading and writing ever since the day he was born. Finally, after an intensive labor of fifteen years, he is now the proud author of a fantasy trilogy presented in two volumes. Having been born in a time when television sets were a novelty and neither the cell phone nor the Internet had yet been invented, he has seen a vast transformation in society moving all too hastily away from nature to embrace technology, losing a large part of our spirituality in the process. This is the overall message of his book: the loss of our bonds with nature and the loss of our bonds of friendship and kinsmanship. His childhood world of 2.5 billion persons has now exploded into a world with an unsustainable seven billion individuals. Being the only car on the road on Sunday afternoon drives has now become as extinct a species as our Passenger Pigeon. Rich currently lives in Whetstone, Arizona, far away from traffic jams and overcrowded malls, where he can enjoy the serenity of wildlife and starlit skies undimmed by light pollution. He would much rather share a quiet afternoon entertained with the daring-dos of a tree lizard or the springing antics of a spotted ground squirrel than being bruised by a crowd of rude and noisy shoppers at the local mall. Please take this simple work with you and, on some quiet Sunday afternoon when the rain is gently drizzling upon some tin roof or pattering upon some forgotten windowpane, open a bottle of your most gentle wine and reflect upon the most precious world in which we live. Thank you for having taken the time to join with us on this simple journey.