Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

Historic preservation is the stewardship of the important places from our past, including buildings, structures, sites, districts, and landscapes. These places comprise the cultural resources of Colorado. A survey documents the physical evidence of the past that expresses and contributes to the history and identity of a region.

When Dryer and Danforth set out to explore the Antarctic continent, they encounter a strange civilization that traveled to Earth from the far regions of space millions of years ago, and now Dryer and Danforth are sent to be Earth's ambassadors to space.

"1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn with ancient artifacts--coins, fragments of glass, human bones--which the old parson used to collect. Did his obsession with the past lead to his death? Fairfax becomes determined to discover the truth. Over the course of the next six days, everything he believes--about himself, his faith, and the history...