(urth) The Floating Islands of Lake Diuturna

brunians at brunians.org brunians at brunians.org
Sat Sep 6 17:36:09 PDT 2008


> In The Sword of the Lictor, Wolfe populates Lake Diuturna with floating
> islands which move about with the wind.   This, I had thought, was another
> strange and exotic invention that the author used to separate our world
> from the future Urth.
>
> Well, I've been reading Charles Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle, a book I
> had always meant to read.   When Darwin gets to Lake Titicaca high in the
> Andes, he describes the floating islands in the lake.
>
> Looking at Wikipedia, I find that even to this day there are Indians who
> live on the floating islands.

Oh yeah. I thought everybody knew this.



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