Since the beginning of time, creatures of the air, land and water have lived in peace in the Ancestral World. Landsmen, common beasts, birds and fishes have dwelt in harmony with insects, reptiles and mythical beasts. Ruled with fairness and wisdom by the Council of Guardians, they have known neither suffering nor the ravages of war. Now an evil spirit has come to this land and is laying waste to all that is good. The Forces of Evil have gained ground fast and many of these peaceful creatures have been killed or have fallen under the Evil One’s power. The Life Force of the Ancestral World is almost at an end.Frank Graves is an author and film producer raised in South Africa and is the great grandson of Sir Thomas Maclear named as one of the foremost royal astronomers at the Cape of Good Hope. He is also distantly related to Robert Graves the renowned writer and poet who was a large inspiration for Frank to eventually take up writing. Robert Graves encouraged Frank to start writing with several correspondence letters and stories while still a boy at school.His first published work was published in 1989 was a fictional political thriller named African Chess (Now revamped, updated and republished in March 2014). African Chess was loosely based on his South African upbringing and the then apartheid system in place before Nelson Mandela’s release from prison or his death.His next major work published by Marshall Cavendish in 1992 was an epic 832 page The Ancestral Trail was ‘split’ into two halves of 26 issues each, making a total of 52 issues in total, all contained consecutive page and issue numbers. The first half, published fortnightly throughout 1993, takes place within a mythological ‘Ancestral World’ that describes a boy’s struggle to restore good to these worlds. After the initial international run that sold over 30 million copies worldwide, the second half of that series was then created and was published in 1994 and took place in the totally different ‘Cyber Dimension’ all about the same boy’s attempt to find a way back to his own world. Graves has now updated and re-written the full Ancestral Trail Trilogy in the form of three major novels. In January 2014, the first section covering a journey through an ‘Ancient World’ within The Ancestral Trail Trilogy named Long Ago & Far Away in a 450-page novel was published. The next novel is the second continuing section of the trilogy that covers a ‘Cyber World’ published in November 2014 and the third section of the trilogy, covering our ‘Exponential World’ published in mid 2017.
