Cube Route - Land of Xanth Traditional Cache
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Cube Route - Land of Xanth
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Cube Route is named for the twenty-seventh book of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony. Xanth is a place where "appearance counts for most of reality" and nearly everyone has some magical talent, even if it is only the ability to change the color of popcorn. BUSHWACKING FROM ROAD MAY PUT YOU IN THE WETLANDS. Best access from Bear Trail – see map. http://www.bow-nh.com/pdfs/CC_Hiking_Trails_2010.pdf See GC23JY7 for parking.
Cube Route contains a crossover to Phaze, a world in Anthony's seven-book Apprentice Adept series. The title and theme of this novel plays upon the common joke that Anthony had originally intended only a trilogy of novels, but as they kept appearing, kept calling it an "extended trilogy." This book concludes the "first trilogy" as it is twenty-seventh (three cubed) novel.
In the magical land of Xanth, wishes are far more than mere words. So when a Plain Jane called Cube whispers a wistful wish to be beautiful, she finds herself leading a company of colorful companions on a search for the mysterious Cube Route—a perilous path that leads to danger, adventure, and perhaps her heart's desire as well.
This curious quest takes them all over Xanth, into the mythical realm of Phaze, and even to our own world, where Cube rescues a beautiful human woman from a very ugly situation, ending at last in a mysterious Counter-Xanth where things can be transformed into their opposites in the wink of an eye. Cube Route is also a moving exploration of the beauty that dwells within all of us.
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