The White Dragon Volume III of The Dragonriders of Pern

by MCCAFFREY, ANNE

• ISBN13: 9780345341679
• ISBN10: 0345341678
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1986-11-12
• Publisher: Del Rey

Summary

For use in schools and libraries only. Jaxom, a rebellious youth, and Ruth, his white dragon, fly into another time to retrieve the queen's stolen egg, thereby averting a dragonrider war, and find their planet threatened once again by a Threadfall.

Author Biography

Anne McCaffrey was born on April lst, l926, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at 1:30 p.m., in the hour of the Sheep, year of the Fire Tiger, sun sign Aries with Taurus rising and Leo mid-heaven (which seems to suggest an early interest in the stars). <br> <br>Her parents were George Herbert McCaffrey, BA, MA PhD (Harvard), Colonel USA Army (retired), and Anne Dorothy McElroy McCaffrey, estate agent. She had two brothers: Hugh McCaffrey (deceased l988), Major US Army, and Kevin Richard McCaffrey, still living. <br> <br>Anne was educated at Stuart Hall, Staunton, Virginia, Montclair High School, Montclair, New Jersey, and graduated cum laude from Radcliffe College, majoring in Slavonic Languages and Literatures. <br> <br>Anne McCaffrey has tried to live up to her auspicious natal day. Her first novel was written in Latin class and might have brought her instant fame, as well as an A, if she had written it in that ancient language. Much chastened by teacher and father, she turned to the stage and became a character actress, appearing in the first successful summer music circus in Lambertsville, NJ. She studied voice for nine years and, during that time, became intensely interested in the stage direction of opera and operetta, ending that phase of her experience with the direction of the American premiere of Carl Orff's "Ludus de Nato Infante Mirificus" in which she also played a witch. <br> <br>Her working career included Liberty Music Shops and Helena Rubinstein (l947-1952). She married in 1950 and has three children: Alec Anthony, b. l952, Todd, b.l956, and Georgeanne, b.1959. <br> <br>Anne McCaffrey's first story was published by Sam Moskowitz in Science Fiction + Magazine--and her first novel published by Ballantine Books in l967. By the time the three children of her marriage were comfortably in school most of the day, she had already achieved enough success with short stories to devote full time to writing. <br> <br>Her first novel, Restoree, was written as a protest against the absurd and unrealistic portrayals of women in science-fiction novels in the 50s and early 60s. It is, however, in the handling of broader themes and the worlds of her imagination, particularly the two series,The Ship Who Sang--and the fourteen novels about the Dragonriders Of Pern, that Ms. McCaffrey's talents as a storyteller are best displayed. <br> <br>Although she used to make appearances throughout the world as guest of honor at science fiction conventions, arthritis has now restricted such travel. She lives in a house of her own design, Dragonhold-Underhill (because she had to dig out a hill on her farm to build it) in Wicklow County, Ireland. It is not remotely like a castle, "on purpose," she says to people who believe "hold" is synonymous with "castle" in Ireland. <br> <br>Anne runs a private livery stable and her horses have been successful in Horse Trials and showjumping. She does not ride in competition, she hastens to add, but has enjoyed the success of horse and rider and, until recently, rode out on her black and white mare, Pi.

Table of Contents

Prologue	1	(11)
At Ruatha Hold, Present Pass, 12th Turn	11	(26)
Benden Weyr, Present Pass, 13th Turn	37	(9)
Morning at Ruatha Hold, and Smithcrafthall at Telgar Hold, Present Pass, 15.5.9	46	(25)
Ruatha Hold, Fidello's Hold, and Various Points Between, 15.5.10--15.5.16	71	(17)
Morning in Harpercraft Hall, Fort Hold, Afternoon in Benden Weyre, Late Afternoon in Harpercraft Hall, 15.5.26	88	(27)
Ruatha Hold and Southern Hold, 15.5.27--15.6.2	115	(12)
Morning at Ruatha Hold, 15.6.2	127	(10)
Ruatha Hold, Fort Weyr, Fidello's Hold, 15.6.3--15.6.17	137	(24)
Early Summer, Harpercraft Hall and Ruatha Hold, 15.7.3	161	(17)
From Harpercraft Hall to the Southern Continent, Evening at Benden Weyr, 15.7.4	178	(18)
Late Morning at Benden Weyr, Early Morning at Harpercraft Hall, Midday at Fidello's Hold, 15.7.5	196	(14)
Ruatha Hold, Fidello's Hold, Threadfall, 15.7.6	210	(15)
A Cove in the Southern Continent, 15.7.7--15.8.7	225	(27)
Early Morning at Harpercraft Hall, Midmorning at Ista Weyr, Midafternoon at Jaxom's Cove, 15.8.28	252	(18)
Evening at Jaxom's Cove and Late Evening at Ista Weyr, 15.8.28	270	(18)
At the Cove Hold, 15.8.28--15.9.7	288	(23)
Fort Hold, Benden Weyr, at Cove Hold, and at Sea aboard the Dawn Sister, 15.10.1--15.10.2	311	(16)
At the Cove Hold the Day of Master Robinton's Arrival, 15.10.14	327	(14)
Morning at the Cove Hold, Star-gazing in Late Evening, Next Morning, Discovery at the Mountain, 15.10.15--15.10.16	341	(46)
At the Mountain and at Ruatha Hold, 15.10.18--15.10.20	387	(40)
Next Day at the Mountain, Cove Hold, and the Southern Hatching Ground, 15.10.21	427	(13)
Afterword	440	(7)
Dragondex	447