The Argonauts: The Quest for the Golden Fleece($14.99Value)

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**** WINNER - 2025 INTERNATIONAL IMPACT BOOK AWARDS – WINNER **** When Jason was an infant and his father was the King of Iolkos, his uncle Pelias led an attack on the city, overthrew King Aison, and imprisoned him. During the fighting, a nursemaid tucked the baby under her robe and fled, but she took an arrow in the back as she escaped. Climbing Mt. Pelion to Chiron's cave, she handed over the little bundle, just before she died. For twenty years, Chiron the noble centaur mentored Jason, teaching the boy how to handle each different weapon, but more importantly how to be a great leader. Jason then boldly returns to Iolkos and demands his father's release. King Pelias agrees to free his brother - but only if Jason survives the long journey to Kolchis and returns with the Golden Fleece, which provides magical protection for the city where it is kept. Needing a ship to carry him to the far end of the world, Jason finds the Argo, the longest ship ever built, only it doesn't have a crew. To complete the Quest for the Golden Fleece, he must recruit fifty brave oarsmen to accompany him on this treacherous voyage, men who will be known throughout history as The Argonauts. “Where a drakon, a monster terrible to behold, ever glares around, keeping watch over the fleece” - Appolonius, The Argonautica “It was a striking sight, this creature, with its crest and three-forked tongue and curving fangs” - Ovid, Metamorphosis