Levkas Man

by Hammond Innes

Book Overview

The love-hate relationship between a young man and the anthropologist who adopted him starts in Amsterdam and moves swiftly to Malta and the isles of Greece. The consuming passion of the old man's life is his dedicated pursuit of the origins of early man. And the son, as he gradually uncovers his father's past, begins to understand what drives him so relentlessly.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394442407
• ISBN13: 9780394442402
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Man the Killer

Hammond Innes has written some great books and some average ones, but Levkas Man is his masterpiece. It is a superb, unusually dark, adventure story about the hunt for the remains of primitive man by two rival scientists. That in itself is exciting, but it is the characters that make this book. The way the modern cast display the same, primeval emotions of ancient humans is brilliantly done, and, although entertaining, this is a bitter tale of how individual people don't change any more than the human race as a whole.