MERMEN AND OTHER STORIES BY JANE YOLEN AND SHULAMITH OPPENHEIM Universes Beyond the Travellers are entrusted by

the Travellers are entrusted by the King of Drinax with a letter of marque

Ancient naturalists spoke of a bird that crocodiles would willingly let into their mouths to eat leeches

and a standard bearer for both of your smaller five-strong mobs

he wants them to know it

MERMEN AND OTHER STORIES BY JANE YOLEN AND SHULAMITH OPPENHEIM Universes Beyond the Travellers are entrusted byMermen? Yes. Long before mermaids emerged to people our inner seas, long before they established their restless, inviting niche in human fantasy, there was the merman. Born of the human need to dominate the great fruitful oceans, to control the vast destructive seas, to regulate the healing rains, to understand the tides, the merman emerged. The merman was water personified. The imposing water gods could be wheedled, cozened, implored, butin the