The Ancestral Trail

The Ancestral Trail is a now out-of-print long-form fictional story woven throughout a 52-issue partwork children's magazine series that was originally-published between 1992 and 1994 by Marshall Cavendish in the United Kingdom and Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, Malta, Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa; as well as translated versions licensed to local publishers in France, Germany (where it was titled Im Reich der Urwesen), Italy (titled La Storia Ancestrale), Spain. Launching as a fortnightly fantasy series, The Ancestral Trail Trilogy tells the continuing adventure of a young man called Richard, who is brought to The Ancestral World to help the inhabitants of that realm to repel an occupying force known as The Evil One and restore good to the world. Originally twenty-six issues were commissioned for the part-work.

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The Ancestral Trail ceased publication in 1994. Back issues are often held by research libraries and digital archives.