num_pages: 464
description: Millions of years ago, a meteorite fell to earth and a beautiful blue stone shattered from it. One hundred thousand years ago, a girl named Tall One found the crystal on the African plain---and it formed her destiny, as well as the destiny of generations to come. From ancient Israel to imperial Rome, medieval England, fifteenth-century Germany, the eighteenth-century Caribbean, and the nineteenth-century American West, the destiny of the stone and the history of the world unfold. Each story is full of the betrayals and obsessions of the human heart, and the quests of the human spirit. In The Blessing Stone , Barbara Wood has both told the intimate details of her characters' lives and created a sense of the epic sweep of human history.
language: English
title: The Blessing Stone
titlecomplete: The Blessing Stone
characters: Lady Amelia, Keeka, Katharina Bauer, Laliari, Tall One, Matthew Lively, Avram, Brigitte Bellefontaine, Mother Winifred
genres: Adventure, Historical, Historical Fiction, Prehistory, Africa, Adult Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Fiction
ratings_count: 1589
places: Germany, Martinique, Africa, England, American West, Jordan River, Rome
publisher: St. Martin's Griffin