Can't remember title or author

[brightspirit]

Does anyone know the titles and author for a fantasy trilogy that features a man who ends up transported to a desert type world where a rare few warrior types bond telepathically with intelligent lion-like creatures which they ride. The setting is in the Mediterranean Sea area just prior to it being flooded as a sea, historically speaking. I believe the protagonist's lion-like creature he bonds with is named something like Keesha, though I'm not sure of that or if the spelling is accurate.

I read this trilogy in the 1980's sometime and, for the life of me I can't remember much else about the series other than it begins with an elderly man on some sort of boat who sees a bright light coming at him and then he wakes up in a younger body, one with more pronounced canine teeth, in some sort of desert environment.

Thanks in advance for any feedback!

 

[The Great Snook]

You are looking for the Gandalara saga written by Randall Garrett.

A great trilogy

 

[HareBrain]

Good grief, this has 16 reviews on Amazon.com, all of them five star! Pretty impressive. I think I'll have to try it.

 

[brightspirit]

Great Snook,

Thanks!!! I've been trying to remember that series for years!!!

My undying gratitude,
Brightspirit

 

[The Great Snook]

Not a problem, just remember to pay it forward.

@Harebrain

If you can find it, the series is very good and worth reading.

 

[HareBrain]

I'm not sure it was ever published in the UK, but I've ordered a copy from a US seller.

 

[The Great Snook]

I'm not sure it was ever published in the UK, but I've ordered a copy from a US seller.

Holy necro Snook, why are you reopening such an old thread. Well I was curious if HareBrain ever read the series and enjoyed it. Personally, I read it in the 80s and always think fondly on it.

 

[HareBrain]

Holy necro Snook, why are you reopening such an old thread. Well I was curious if HareBrain ever read the series and enjoyed it. Personally, I read it in the 80s and always think fondly on it.

I think if I'd read it in the 80s too, i.e. in my teens, I would have enjoyed it and been carried along with it. But as a jaded adult, it didn't do enough for me, I'm afraid. I think I got 100-200 pages in to the first one.