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The quotations are all from the fighter, not the writer.
The Minoan tribe's odyssey to what is today Palestine and Israel is defined in Old Testament texts as the invasion of the 'Philistines.' In his gripping novel, a richly embroidered tapestry of human migration, Jack Dempsey, historian and researcher on Minoan culture, painstakingly recreates the religion, the lifestyle and the ordeal of the migrants, escaping from their war-ravaged homeland, as they brave the unpredictable sea in flimsy vessels and the hatred of their hosts in scenarios that recall the predicament of today's refugees floating into Europe. The book should be read by all those who still believe different races and religions cannot mix, when they always have---or, that migration is a scourge when in reality it always benefited both sides.