# The defender

Author: Kalashnikoff, Nicholas, 1888-1961; Louden, Claire [Illustrator]; Louden, George, 1920-1997 [Illustrator]

Genre: Category: Children & Young Adult Reading

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77051

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+defender+Kalashnikoff&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Turgen, whose name means “fleet-of-foot” in the Lamut tongue, was a lonely man. It had not always been so. When he was younger he had had a wife and a son whom he loved. But both had died of an illness that burned like fire, and rested now in a single grave under the larch tree outside his door. He had also had the liking and trust of the Yakuts who were his neighbors in the valley below. Among them he was famed for his knowledge of medicine. Knowing him for a kindly, generous man, they came to him for healing grasses, and were never refused. He, in turn, visited them and sat by their _komeleks_, or fire-places, to exchange the latest news.

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER 27](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-defender-77051/chapters/27/index.md)
- [CHAPTER 24](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-defender-77051/chapters/24/index.md)
- [CHAPTER 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-defender-77051/chapters/23/index.md)
- [CHAPTER 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-defender-77051/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER 29](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-defender-77051/chapters/29/index.md)
- [CHAPTER 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-defender-77051/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-defender-77051/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-defender-77051/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-defender-77051/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-defender-77051/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-defender-77051/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-defender-77051/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-defender-77051/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-defender-77051/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER 26](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-defender-77051/chapters/26/index.md)
- [CHAPTER 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-defender-77051/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-defender-77051/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-defender-77051/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-defender-77051/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-defender-77051/chapters/22/index.md)
- [CHAPTER 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-defender-77051/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-defender-77051/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-defender-77051/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-defender-77051/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER 28](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-defender-77051/chapters/28/index.md)
- [CHAPTER 25](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-defender-77051/chapters/25/index.md)
- [CHAPTER 30](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-defender-77051/chapters/30/index.md)
- [CHAPTER 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-defender-77051/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-defender-77051/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-defender-77051/chapters/1/index.md)