Voyage With Jason: Part 1

By KEN CATRAN, Illustrator NICK STATHOPOULOS

Pylos is my name. All the name I have. And this story was mine before the bards shaped it into legend; the legend of Jason and Hercules and all the Argonaut heroes who dared the unknown seas for gold and glory . . . and who were all touched by the dark cold power of the Gods and by fate.

…There was once a king of Greece, who took a second wife. She hated the children of his first wife, who were called Prixus and Helle. She sought their deaths, but the Gods intervened…

They escaped, on the back of a wonderful, golden-fleeced, winged ram. They flew long long leagues to the unknown…

On the journey, little Helle lost her handhold and fell. The place where she drowned is now called Hellespont Straits. The winged ram took Prixus on, to a far country called Colchis…

And what became of that wonderful winged ram? And why did King Pelias of Icolos fear the coming of a man with one sandal…?

The legend and this story are bound up with mine. And with a journey to the unknown lands of a dark, ageless power . . .

A voyage with Jason.

Publisher: Lothian

Price: $17.95

Age group: 11 years plus