First Earth is a fictional name for a non-fictional world in D. J. MacHale's Pendragon series of fantasy novels. First Earth is Earth in 1937, specifically around the time of the Hindenburg disaster. Bobby and Spader visit First Earth in The Never War. In The Pilgrims of Rayne, Bobby and Courtney visit First Earth in an attempt to find Mark. When Bobby decides it's more important to go to Ibara to figure out the turning point and to find saint Dane, he leaves Courtney to find Mark on First Earth as her responsibility. With the help of Gunny's acolyte, Dodger, Courtney and he find Mark on the Queen Mary on a voyage to London England in the company of Nevva Winter and Saint Dane in his classical disguise as Andy Mitchell to deliver forge to KEM.
The Traveler from First Earth is Vincent "Gunny" Van Dyke, an African American working in the Manhattan Tower Hotel as Bell Captain. He got the nickname "Gunny" during World War I, where he failed to fire a gun multiple times.
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Famous quotes containing the word earth:
“That land is like an Eagle, whose young gaze
Feeds on the noontide beam, whose golden plume
Floats moveless on the storm, and in the blaze
Of sunrise gleams when Earth is wrapped in gloom;
An epitaph of glory for the tomb
Of murdered Europe may thy fame be made,
Great People! as the sands shalt thou become;
Thy growth is swift as morn, when night must fade;
The multitudinous Earth shall sleep beneath thy shade.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
“Still they stood,
A great wave from it going over them,
As if the earth in one unlooked-for favor
Had made them certain earth returned their love.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)