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Omnibus version of King of the World's Edge and The Ship from Atlantis.

This is the story of ancient Roman soldiers; one in particular named Ventidius Varro, also called Haro by the native people. A ruler he wants to be and in the new world at the edge of the world he becomes one. A warrior is he, and this is a tale of his battles and conquests, along with his self-discovery.

They were a lonely, half-starved band of adventurers who had been cast out of their homeland by hordes of invading marauders -- and they came to an unknown world as strange, as fantastic, as wonder-packed as the legendary Atlantis. Here they encountered the dread fish-monsters of Piasa, and were captured by the savage legions of Miapan's barbaric empire. But they escaped -- and vowed to build a new civilization in the wilderness that would crush the tyrants of Miapan forever!

Fighting their way across an uncharted continent peopled by strange civilizations and fierce beast-monsters, the sorcerer Myrdhinn and his small band of followers had only their swords and the discipline of their military training to sustain them -- for Myrdhinn, master of Druid magic, had foresworn the black arts when he had become a Christian convert.

Yet at last, upon a barbarous pagan altar in the heart of Miapan, Myrdhinn faced an evil so great that he knew he must throw all the powers at his command against it. And when Myrdhinn called up the forces of the earth and elements against his foes, this entire new world was shaken to its foundations!

This story follows the further adventures of Gwalchmai, who sets out for Rome but becomes lost in the Sargasso Sea and encounters a survivor from Atlantis.

Merlin's Ring tells the story of Gwalchmai, godson to Merlin, and of Corenice, an immortal woman of Atlantis, and of a love that spanned centuries of high adventure.

Gwalchmai is an active participant in much of Earth's development, living in worlds both magical and real. Throughout he carries the ring of Merlin, which gives him certain arcane powers. Throughout runs the thread of the very moving love story of Corenice and Gwalchmai-Iovers separated poignantly time and again by the adventures that take Gwalchmai from Atlantis to the Norseland, from the elf-world to pre-history, from Arthur's Court to the Far East, from Cathay to Irish mythology, from medeival Rome to the burning of the Maid of Orleans. Seldom has such a huge canvas so successfully combined major historic events with the worlds of magic and wonder.