Travels in Elysium Virtual Tour

Posted on June 20, 2013 by litekepr

We are coordinating a visit to the island of Santorini in September. Travels in Elysium is a metaphysical mystery/psychological thriller that is set around an archaeological dig and we are looking for bloggers and book reviewers who would like to come along with us. This virtual tour we are only looking for book reviews. We have print and digital copies of Travels in Elysium for review. Please read on for more details. If you enjoy these genres and topics – Travels in Elysium may be of interest to youTravels in Elysium by William Azuski

  • Literary Fiction
  • Metaphysical Mystery
  • Historical
  • Philosophical/ Visionary
  • Metaphysical fiction
  • Near Death Experiences
  • New Age Elements

There is much more information about Travels in Elysium and William Azuski below the schedule. We are still scheduling more people to review Travels in Elysium. If you’d like to do a review – contact nikki @ nikkileigh.com. We’re also looking for bloggers to share excerpts from Travels in Elysium – short introductions for each excerpt are posted here https://bookpromotionservices.com/2013/10/02/excerpts-travels-in-elysium/

Schedule Travels in Elysium

Tuesday Sept 3 – Carolyn Howard Johnson shares information about Travels in Elysium with William Azuski on her new book review blog – http://thenewbookreview.blogspot.com/2013/09/atlantis-mystery-plays-out-on.html

Wednesday Sept 4 – Share Chapter 1 of Travels in Elysium by William Azuski – http://www.learntosellmorebooks.com/chapter-1-travels-in-elysium/

Friday Sept 6 – Stephen Tremp shares his review for Travels in Elysium by William Azuski on her blog – http://authorstephentremp.blogspot.com/2013/09/travels-in-elysium-by-uk-author-william.html

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Monday Sept 9 – Angie Mangano shares her review for Travels in Elysium by William Azuski on her website – http://www.angiemangino.com/Travels-in-Elysium.html

Tuesday Sept 10 – Gary Severence shares his review for Travels in Elysium by William Azuski on his blog – http://gas137a.blogspot.com/2013/09/home-of-blessed-travels-in-elysium-by.html

Wednesday Sept 11 – Pia Bernadino share her review for Travels in Elysium by William Azuski on her blog – http://piabernardino.com/somanybooksheresmine/?p=2230

Thursday Sept 12 –  Diane Ascroft shares her review for Travels in Elysium by William Azuski on her blog – http://dianneascroft.wordpress.com/2013/09/12/travels-in-elysium-reviewed/

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Wednesday Sept 18 – Charlotte Raines Dixon shares her review for Travels in Elysium by William Azuski on her blog – www.charlotterainsdixon.com.

Friday Sept 20 – Dr Beth Nolan shares her review for Travels in Elysium by William Azuski on her blog – www.drbethnolan.wordpress.com

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Monday Sept 23 – Wayne Hurlbert shares her review for Travels in Elysium by William Azuski on his blog – http://www.blogbusinessworld.blogspot.com

Wednesday Sept 25 – Kimberly Wade share her review for Travels in Elysium by William Azuski – http://kimberlywade.livejournal.com/66938.html

Thursday Sept 26 – Susan Wingate shares her review for Travels in Elysium by William Azuski on her blog – http://susanwingate.wordpress.com/2013/09/26/a-review-of-travels-in-elysium-by-william-azuski/

Friday Sept 27 – Lisa shares her review for Travels in Elysium by William Azuski – http://lisahaseltonsreviewsandinterviews.blogspot.com/2013/09/review-of-travels-in-elysium-by-william.html

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Friday Oct 4 – Dee Owens shares her review for Travels in Elysium by William Azuski on her blog – http://bookread-mumswritings.blogspot.com/2013/10/review-travels-in-elysium.html

More tour dates will be added. 

About Travels in Elysium – It was the chance of a lifetime. A dream job in the southern Aegean. Apprentice to the great archaeologist Marcus Huxley, lifting a golden civilisation from the dead… Yet trading rural England for the scarred volcanic island of Santorini, 22-year old Nicholas Pedrosa is about to blunder into an ancient mystery that will threaten his liberty, his life, even his most fundamental concepts of reality. An island that blew apart with the force of 100,000 atomic bombs… A civilisation prised out of the ash, its exquisite frescoes bearing a haunting resemblance to Plato’s lost island paradise, Atlantis… A death that may have been murder… And an archaeologist on a collision course with a brutal police state… As the legend’s tumultuous clash of freedom and tyranny, honour and corruption plays out in the Aegean, Nicholas is forced to confront the possibility that Atlantis is less a physical place on the map than an ingenious metaphysical device engineered by the philosopher himself, one capable of revealing the true nature of reality and the human condition. Can it be understood before it engulfs them all? ‘This extraordinary novel, part murder mystery, part metaphysical thriller, kept me guessing until the very last page. The intellectual duel between the troubled hero and his ruthless mentor is mesmerising. William Azuski’s treatment of the Atlantis legend is completely original and I have rarely read a novel with such a strong sense of place. The bizarre landscapes of Santorini and the daily lives of its people, both ancient and modern, are vividly evoked. Anyone who enjoys the work of Umberto Eco, Orhan Pamuk or Carlos Ruiz Zafón should try this book.’ — Geraldine Harris, author, Egyptologist, and a member of the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford.

Get Your Copy Today – http://www.amazon.com/dp/3952401528

Something to Consider – some reviewers rush to grab the book when they see “Mystery / Thriller / Atlantis” and later realize it is challenging fiction in the classical mold.   About William Azuski – William Azuski was born in the United Kingdom, and is of British and Yugoslav descent. Travelling widely through the Mediterranean since childhood, his frequent sojourns in Greece included several months on Santorini in the 1970s, an experience that provided firsthand experience for this exceptional novel’s local setting. Writing as William Miles Johnson, Azuski is also author of the critically-acclaimed The Rose-Tinted Menagerie, an Observer Book of the Year (nonfiction), and Making a Killing, an end of the world satire, both titles recently republished by Iridescent. William Azuski’s Full Bio – https://bookpromotionservices.com/2013/06/20/william-azuski-full-bio/

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William Azuski – Full Bio

Posted on June 20, 2013 by litekepr

For Details About Travels of Elysium Virtual Book Tour – https://bookpromotionservices.com/2013/06/20/travels-in-elysium-tour/

Of British and Yugoslav parentage, William Azuski (aka William Miles Johnson) spent his formative years in the UK, studying ancient William Azuski author of Travels in Elysiumhistory and literature before dropping out of college to pursue a path on the open road. He travelled widely through the Mediterranean until a chance encounter threw him headlong into an unexpected calling — ecology and conservation.

Azuski went on to head an international conservation project to establish marine protected areas in the militarily tense Eastern Aegean, where the hostile powers of Greece and Turkey confront each other across a narrow stretch of sea, and where shadowy areas of the state apparatus appeared to have forgotten that the Colonels had fallen five years earlier.

Those experiences formed the basis for his first book, The Monk Seal Conspiracy, published by Heretic Books, London (under the author name William Johnson).

Hailed by critics as “A ground-breaking work of great importance” his second book, The Rose-Tinted Menagerie — a history of animals in entertainment, from the circus amphitheatres of ancient Rome to the oceanaria of the 20th century — was published by Heretic Books in 1990, and was chosen as an Observer Book of the Year.

With introductions by Desmond Morris, Richard Adams, Virginia McKenna and Sadruddin Aga Khan, the book also features in-depth investigations into the international trade in dolphins, and animals used for military purposes.

With the title still in demand, Iridescent Publishing republished the illustrated English edition of The Rose-Tinted Menagerie in 2012 in ebook form: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008GE01X8.

An outspoken critic of the failings of international conservation NGOs, a subject featuring prominently in his articles, as well as The Monk Seal Conspiracy, the author’s End of the World satire / black comedy Making A Killing was published in 1996, its story centered around a life-and-death Earth Summit, held in the troubled Caribbean paradise of San Pimente. It was described by actress Virginia McKenna as a “sharp, brilliantly observed book”, and by WWF Founder Ian MacPhail as “A mind-blowing and witty exposé… A no-holds barred, no mercy account of the conservation mercenaries’ (Have Bad News — Will Travel — First Class) successful efforts to get a rich living from a dying planet…”

To mark the 2012 Earth Summit II in Rio, Making A Killing was republished in 2012 by Iridescent Publishing in ebook form: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0088CGHRM.

Johnson / Azuski subsequently turned his attention to more academic titles, with two Leiden-published titles focusing on Europe’s most endangered marine mammal, the Mediterranean monk seal, and its role in the history, culture and ecological decline of the Mediterranean Sea. Monk Seals In Antiquity and Monk Seals In Post-Classical History were published by Backhuys Publishers in 1999 and 2004 respectively.

Drawing on his years in Greece, May 2013 saw the publication of the critically-acclaimed Travels In Elysium, a metaphysical mystery set on the Aegean island of Santorini (Thera). Available in paperback and ebook formats, Travels In Elysium is published by Iridescent under the author’s Yugoslav family name, William Azuski.

“This extraordinary novel, part murder mystery, part metaphysical thriller, kept me guessing until the very last page. The intellectual duel between the troubled hero and his ruthless mentor is mesmerising. William Azuski’s treatment of the Atlantis legend is completely original and I have rarely read a novel with such a strong sense of place. The bizarre landscapes of Santorini and the daily lives of its people, both ancient and modern, are vividly evoked. Anyone who enjoys the work of Umberto Eco, Orhan Pamuk or Carlos Ruiz Zafón should try this book.” — Geraldine Harris, author, Egyptologist, and a member of the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford.

For Details About Travels of Elysium Virtual Book Tour – https://bookpromotionservices.com/2013/06/20/travels-in-elysium-tour/

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