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	Your Stories : : Shardik
		Also on the second night we moved the trap closer to the food so that it was in the field of view of the camera and we could judge his reaction to it.
		But I believe it may be possible that Shardik developed an negative association with tuna after we cornered him under the concrete by the main door to our building during the previous week.
		Shardik went to the food without hesitation and visited the bowl 3 times during the night.
	www.sonic.net /~pauline/shardik.html (847 words)

	Shardik (Dark Tower) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shardik is a character encountered by Roland and his ka-tet during the novel The Waste Lands, book three of Stephen King's epic fantasy series, The Dark Tower.
		Shardik, while originally appearing to be a massive bear, is actually a mechanical construct of North Central Positronics.
		A cyborg, Shardik was built by North Central Positronics to serve as one of the twelve Guardians of the Beams.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shardik_(Dark_Tower) (305 words)

	Shardik Repyntia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Walking onward they seemed to be reaching a part of the forest that Shardik did not know about, the weather seemed to grow cooler here, the trees shortening and the shadows growing longer even though the sun did not seem to move.
		Shardik knew that it was earlier in the day that this, the night shadows should not have come for many hours and yet in this place, all seemed dark and cold.
		He spoke and his voice was a cold that Shardik felt deep in his heart, a stabbing pain that abated after a few moments to a dull ache that was almost a memory.
	www.myrealms.net /members/shardik/home.html (607 words)

	Shardik: Overlook TPRichard Adams Celtic-Instruments.com Books
		Shardik is a fantasy of tragic character, centered on the long-awaited reincarnation of the gigantic bear Shardik and his appearance among the half-barbaric Ortelgan people.
		Kelderek the hunter, who loves and trusts the great bear, is swept on by destiny to become first devotee and then prophet, then victorious soldier, then ruler of an empire and priest-king of Lord Shardik-Messenger of God-only to discover ever-deeper layers of meaning implicit in his passionate belief in the bear's divinity.
		Shardik is the enormous and allegedly divine bear that is the title and center of the story.
	www.celtic-instruments.com /1585671827/Shardik.htm (644 words)

	Shardik - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Soon, Kelderek arrives on Quiso to tell the Tuginda he has discovered that Shardik, the divine bear in which is invested the power of God, has returned, as prophesied.
		It is the home of the Tuginda, her priestesses, and other women who constitute the cult of Shardik.
		The island is narrow, and roughly elliptical, oriented in with its upstream extremity pointed northwest and its downstream extremity southeast.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shardik (1834 words)

	Shardik DVD
		Shardik is a fantasy of tragic character, centered on the long-awaited reincarnation of the gigantic bear Shardik and his appearance among the half-barbaric Ortelgan people.
		A gripping tale of war, adventure, horror and romance, Shardik, on a deeper level, is a remarkable exploration of mankind's universal desire for divine incarnation.
		Adams wrote "Shardik" first, but the events of "Maia" predate it by ten years, and show the Empire in a very different and exciting light, through the eyes of much more loveable (and some magnificently detestable) characters.
	movie-poster.ws /1585671827/Shardik.html (791 words)

	SHARDIK
		Shardik is a bear, a great huge enormous bear.
		The story of SHARDIK is about the man who discovers this bear and all that happens to him thereafter.
		This monster bear kills and mauls many men, though curiously he never eats them even when starving--this is the only part of the story that stretched my belief, the fact that the bear wouldn't eat the fresh meat of a man he has just killed in anger.
	www.yetanotherbookreview.com /shardik.htm (697 words)

	Amazon.ca: Shardik: Books: Richard Adams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Shardik was Adams's 1974 follow-up to his phenomenally popular debut, Watership Down.
		Kelderek declares that the bear is Shardik, a messenger of God, and soon the Ortelgan people rise to "follow" Shardik (who must often be coerced or drugged into fulfilling prophecies) to wage war against the mighty city of Bekla.
		Shardik is another one of his tales that thrusts the reader head first into a world of savagery.
	www.amazon.ca /Shardik-Richard-Adams/dp/0140040994 (1339 words)

	Shardik
		This act is later interpreted by the Ortelgans as Shardik seeking them out as prophesied, yet it could easily result from a natural instinct in an animal remarkable only for its size.
		On the path ahead the army is fighting a losing battle, but when Shardik awakens from his slumber, angered by after-effects of the drug, he breaks his cage and roars in bloodlust as the reminder of the cage rolls him down into the opposing army, devastating them.
		Shardik and his priest spend a great deal of time in the forest as their empire is destroyed by rebels in the city they abandoned.
	www.sfcrowsnest.com /scifinder/a/Shardik.php (1075 words)

	Shardik Summary
		Shardik is a fantasy novel written by Richard Adams in 1974.
		Overview Shardik takes place in an imaginary world.
		It is the story of a lonely hunter, Kelderek, who pursues Shardik, a giant mythotic reproducing bear believed to have the Power of God within...
	www.bookrags.com /Shardik (83 words)

	Shardik Repyntia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		From those simple words did Shardik learn what was to become of his destiny.
		He never said that Shardik was this power, but he always suspected it.
		He knew all things he did and in a fit of what Shardik later realized was the foolish bastard's stupidity; he revealed the location of his phylactery.
	www.myrealms.net /members/shardik/home2.html (404 words)

	JCLC -- Science Fiction/Fantasy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The first of Adam's novels of the Beklan Empire, Shardik follows the adventures of the hunter Kelderek, a shy, self-effacing man who is content to hunt and keep to himself, until in one of his hunts he comes across an enormous wounded bear.
		Convinced that the bear is none other than Shardik, Kelderek reports this news to the priestess of his tribe.
		One of the fascinating aspects of the novel is that Shardik is indeed a bear and behaves like one, and yet his actions could be interpreted by one of his believers as manifestations of the will and power of God.
	www.jclc.org /MaterialsLists/archives/2004june.asp (2344 words)

	nothoo.com » Shardik
		Thus it was with great expectations that I embarked upon the reading of Shardik.
		Weighing in at 604 pages Shardik is a lengthy but enjoyable exploration of the impacts of religion, and possibly more importantly religious fanaticism, on a fictitious but believable infant civilization.
		Shardik is a large and terrifying bear that comes into the kingdom of Belka on the heel of a forest fire.
	www.nothoo.com /wordpress/2005/05/01/shardik (358 words)

	Richard Adams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The people of Ortelga become convinced that Shardik has returned to help his people reclaim the Bekla Empire which once was theirs.
		Shardik demonstrates the power of myth and religion like no other novel I have read.
		Adams wrote at least one sequel to Shardik that I'm aware of, Maia, I was really disappointed with it.
	hem.bredband.net /johava/review/adams.htm (289 words)

	Shardik - Book Club
		Shardik is a magnificent and massive bear considered by the Ortelgans (a feudal and backward island-dwelling people on the outskirts of the slave-trading Beklan empire) to be their God.
		Shardik may indeed be the God that the Ortelgans believe him to be, but we are never shown any direct evidence that this may be the case outside of the Ortelgans' history, religion and interpretation of Shardik's actions.
		It may also be interesting to note that we aren't told for sure that Shardik ISN'T their God...
	www.bookclub9.com /shardik (462 words)

	Tarzan's Tripes Forever, and Other Feghoots - Lord Shardik
		You see, the only way to become a knight in Shardik's empire was to apply for a personal interview with the bear.
		But if you failed, Lord Shardik was quite likely to club your head off your shoulders with one mighty paw.
		Even so, there were many applicants, for the peasantry were poor farmers, and if a candidate failed for knighthood his family would receive, by way of a booby-prize, a valuable sheep dog from the Royal Kennels.
	awpi.com /Combs/Shaggy/633.html (241 words)

	Books - Shardik
		Scenes of a slaver torturing children and the main character are extremely disturbing to some readers.
		Over the course of the story Kelderek becomes high priest to the bear Shardik, and the army re-establish a corrupt and brutal rule.
		A small island, a glowing blade held savagely, a barred cage, an old priestess, a deep hole in the ground, a massive bear—he recognises these images in turn and finally remarks that the fire is beautiful and is burning well.
	listing-index.ebay.com /books/Shardik.html (1088 words)

	Shardik Summary / Study Guide
		The main characters reflect both the tensions and the ambiguities of the novel.
		Shardik is a powerful creature, but whether his power stems from God or Nature is never clear, Shardik is always viewed from afar.
		Shardik's chief priest and priestess, Kelderek and the Tuginda, profess no doubts.
	www.enotes.com /shardik-qn (121 words)

	Is Richard Adams’s “Shardik” a children’s book? - BlurtIt
		Some children who had loved Adams’s earlier children’s bestseller “Watership Down,” about a group of rabbits, must have rushed to read his 1974 novel “Shardik,” which was apparently about a large bear.
		“Shardik” is a very adult tale, set in the imaginary kingdom of Bekla, which seems to be partly based on ancient societies like Babylon.
		The novel follows Kelderek as he tries to understand what his “god” wants of him; he is led into war, starvation and even slavery before reaching peace and a new life.
	www.blurtit.com /q806217.html (251 words)

	Amazon.com: Shardik: Books: Richard adams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		This tribe, the Ortelgans, believe that Shardik's purpose is to lead them to greatness, and so when he appears they follow him in a glorious campaign to conquer the Empire.
		While many of his actions are evil, we are never allowed to lose sympathy with him or to suspect him of hypocrisy, while at the same time we come to sympathize more and more with the characters who oppose his fanatical regime.
		However, in the battle with the Beklans, Shardik breaks out of his cage at a crucial battle and kills several soldiers, as well as a crucial leader.
	www.amazon.com /Shardik-Richard-adams/dp/0671220152 (2556 words)

	Overlook Press
		Shardik returns to print—a powerful fantasy of intensity, depth, and imaginative force—by the best-selling author of Watership Down.
		Kelderek the hunter, who loves and trusts the great bear, is swept on by destiny to become first devotee and then prophet, then victorious soldier, then ruler of an empire and priest-king of Lord Shardik—Messenger of God — only to discover to ever-deeper layers of meaning implicit in his passionate belief in the bear’s divinity.
		“Shardik is a powerful work, dipping deep into old forms—allegory, epic, myth—resonating in the caverns of the readers’ unconscious.
	www.overlookpress.com /book.php?ISBN=1-58567-182-7 (275 words)

	Shardik Study Guide by Richard Adams: Related Titles
		Maia (1985) is an odd sequel to Shardik.
		It continues the theme of the enslavement of children, but instead of depicting physical cruelty, it recounts the hedonistic life of a fifteenyear-old concubine named Maia.
		Shardik from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults.
	www.bookrags.com /shortguide-shardik/relatedtitles.html (156 words)

	Shardik Related Titles
		It continues the theme of the enslavement of children, but instead of depicting physical cruelty, it recounts the hedonistic life of a fifteen-year-old concubine named Maia.
		Although this novel explores the corrupt core of a civilized empire, it totally lacks the attention to natural landscape and the epic vocabulary that gives Shardik its power.
		Simply highlight the word and press SHIFT + D for a definition.
	www.enotes.com /shardik-qn/66952 (121 words)

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	TheDarkTower.net - Booksearch Results for Shardik (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Page 83: The Bear at one end — Shardik.
		Page 112: This — for we're still on it — is the Beam of Shardik.
		Page 399: There might even be a place in this one for a giant bear, like Shardik in the Richard Adams novel!
	www.thedarktower.net /booksearch/find.php?book6=1&q=Shardik (101 words)

	Shardik (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Kelderek, a lone hunter, pursues the secret of Shardik, the reincarnation of a giant bear, in an odyssey that takes him across the landscape of a fabled world.
		Book Description: "Shardik is a powerful work, dipping deep into old forms-allegory, epic, myth-resonating in the caverns of the readers' unconscious.
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	isbn.nu /1585671827 (505 words)

	Luminist Bookstore: Used Books: Fantasy: Shardik by Richard Adams
		Luminist Bookstore: Used Books: Fantasy: Shardik by Richard Adams
		A heroic fantasy epic with mythological overtones, by the author of Watership Down.
		“A thundering tale of love and adventure, of kingdoms won and lost — the stirring romantic epic of a lone hunter, Kelderek, who pursues the secret of Shardik in a great odyssey across the length and breadth of a fabled world.” Avon paperback, 5th printing of the 1976 edition.
	www.luminist.org /bookstore/00055.htm (71 words)

	Shardik- by Richard Adams
		The ending is hokey, but the rest of the text is most insightful.
		One man believes Shardik to be a god, and that he has special powers of communication with the bear.
		He leads his people based on this belief.
	www.t-one.net /~om/read/fict/shardik.htm (74 words)

	Shardik (Beklan Empire, book 1) by Richard Adams
		Shardik (Beklan Empire, book 1) by Richard Adams
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