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Tally-Ho! (Paperback)
Gwen Buchanan; Edited by Denise De Lozier; Kevin John Grote
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R580
Discovery Miles 5 800
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Book Two of "The Highwaymen" trilogy. The chase is on. The huntsman
courses the pack, hot on the fox's trail. Henry Fielding & the
'Bow Street Runners' prowl the brothels, dives, and back-alleys of
London, following the mysterious highwaymen. They are not alone.
Sir Nicodemus and 'The Shadows' wait for news from London. It hangs
on Jack Broughton's connections to the underworld. The tables are
turning. Do not look over your shoulder. The hunters have become
the hunted. Tally-Ho
Juniata is a two-part novel. Loyalhanna, the second book in the
series will complete the tale. The sky is on fire. All along the
frontier, the flames are spreading eastward, settlement by
settlement, born on a western wind and fanned by men clad in
doeskin and daubed with greasepaint. The blazing settlements and
farmsteads become a crimson reflection of the tumult transpiring
along the disputed colonial back country. The future of North
America is up for grabs. Two intrepid scouts, called by most of
their fellow colonists, rangers, have been stalking a murderous
Shawnee war party heading west, deeper in the wilderness for
several days. They track the raiders over the Huntingdon Ridge and
to George's Road, the only link between New Forge and Juniata. One
of the scouts, a Susquehannock, stays on their trail, while the
other Ranger, a former Jacobite, moves silently to the remote
village of New Forge. In Europe, alliances and betrayals are the
order of the day. After their success in the War of Austrian
Succession, France is pushing against the English claims in the New
World. But here the rules are different; the rugged terrain is
hostile to the movements of large armies. So the tactics of the
locals are adopted by the French military in Montreal. Small bands
strike quickly, and then with captives and loot in hand, the
raiders melt away into the mountains, as suddenly as they appear.
The French are using their cat's paws of the native tribes and
Canadian colonists to strike the first blows of the coming
conflict. In the cities of the Eastern Seaboard, the wall of the
Appalachians is looked as the end of the frontier. The lands beyond
are looked upon as a private hunting preserve for the last two
hundred years by the Six Nations. It is wilderness, devoid of human
habitation, that is until newcomers, seeing its immense potential,
begin to stake their claims. The waning influence of the Iroquois
tempts wealth seekers from all directions to fill the power vacuum.
As well as the colonial governments, France and England are looking
to expand their New World domains. The tribes of the western
slopes, Shawnee, Ojibwa, Delaware, Miami, Huron, Seneca, as well as
explorers, trappers, and settlers, Virginian and Pennsylvanian,
begin looking over the mountain fastness to the rich country
beyond; each of them intent on marking their claim. The great
rivers, Allegheny and Monongahela, flow westward from the north and
south. They meet to form a great navigable river that will open the
interior lands to the Mississippi River. The mighty Ohio, the
gateway to the interior of North America. Its riches are worth
fighting for. And dying.
The saga of the Western Isles continues. Rejoin Jamie Fawkes,
Archie McLawry, and Allie-Kat MacEwan in the next chapter of their
adventures. 1745 is the follow up to Skye, the second volume of the
series "The Jacobites." Sir Donald MacDonald and the rest of his
clan and kinsmen are seething for revenge. Clan MacDonald has not
forgotten or forgiven the latest slight at the hands of the
MacKellans. One Arthur MacDonald, the heir, has set his cap for
Allie-Kat, and a looming confrontation with Jamie. The protagonists
and their stories in this novel, and the others in the series,
begin on the Isle of Skye in the Inner Hebrides and weave their way
to the outskirts of Edinburgh for the remainder of 1745.
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Skye (Paperback)
Gwen Buchanan; Kevin John Grote
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R505
Discovery Miles 5 050
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Book One of "The Jacobites." Centuries of endless feuds and cold
revenge. Decades lost in senseless betrayal and hot-blooded murder.
Passing years marked by awakening love and mindless passion. The
internal stresses of day to day life in the Western Isles are
marked by external interruptions from the south, from who sits on
the English Throne. Since the death of Elizabeth the first in 1603,
the Crown has been controlled by the Stewart family. But after
eighty-five years of rule and civil war, the Stewarts have been
pushed out. Now, brooding in exile, their leader, 'The throne of
England. This will be their final revenge on the foreign usurpers,
the House of Hanover, and their traitorous supporters. They have
tried before in 1715 and 1719, fanning the few embers of revolt,
which quickly fizzled out with lack of support. The inhabitants of
the north of Scotland and islands of the Hebrides are ardent
Jacobites, dating back from before the time of Mary, Queen of the
Scots. Pushed down, they have risen back up, time after time, to
fight again for the Stewart cause. This support for the Scottish
Royal Family has triggered constant flare-ups, interactions, and
switching loyalties. These dynastic and religious struggles have
been going on and off since 1642, with no signs of abating. The
Stewarts have been winning, losing, and plotting for the English
throne for one hundred years. On the Isle of Skye, other battles
rage on a smaller scale, but no less fierce. Three contesting
families push their young hot-heads to wage raiding, feuding, and
bloodshed; all for control of the windswept island. These tales
cover the lives of five generations of the Fawkes family. At the
heart of the adventures is their fealty to the clan MacKellan and
its chief, and the interactions of their clan with the other two
clans that share the Isle of Skye on the northwest coast of
Scotland. This struggle has lasted for nearly seven hundred years,
the scales tilting back and forth between two ancient adversaries,
the MacDonald and the MacLeod. The Clan MacDonald and the Clan
MacLeod have fought many a bloody battle against each other, and
the Isle split between them. Three hundred years ago, a band of
newcomers, under the banner of the MacKellans, left their home on
Mull, and landed on the peninsula of Sleat. They found easy prey in
the once powerful MacDonalds, who were weakened by plague and
decades of war. The MacKellans pushed them off the peninsula of
Sleat, and took up residence at Armadale. The MacDonalds
reestablished their seat of power in the northeast of the isle near
the town of Thorsglen. The Laird of the MacKellans has taken up
residence in the MacDonalds former castle, "Gallowglass." The
three-story castle takes its name from the mercenary Norse-Scottish
warriors who fought in Ireland. Peace is common now, even
intermarriage among the laird's families, just an occasional
scruffy bandit, or cattle thief to mar the 'Pax Britannica' of the
United Kingdom of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. Sir Donald
'Black Donald' MacDonald, the Laird of the MacDonalds, is growing
in wealth and power. He wants their ancestral lands back from the
intruding MacKellans. Black Donald is plotting his return to Sleat.
Death. Death to the last of his enemies.
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Tyburn (Paperback)
Gwen Buchanan; Edited by Denise De Lozier; Kevin John Grote
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R552
Discovery Miles 5 520
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Book One of "The Highwaymen" trilogy. TYBURN follows Sir Nicodemus
Skellington, and his mysterious associates, The Shadows, as they
pick up the trail of the fleeing outlaws. Skellington is closing
in. TYBURN whisks you through the sounds, smells, and tastes of
18th century England. You enter the country inns, brothels, abbeys,
prize rings, gaming dens, theaters, and coffee houses. You hear the
whores, thugs, boxers, gamblers, actors, publicans, outlaws, and
clergy as they tell the story in speech and in letters. TYBURN
places you amidst the crowds on Hanging Day in London. In Newgate,
the condemned, nooses round their necks, are loaded into carts. The
throngs are massing at the gallows. Time is running out. At TYBURN,
Jack Ketch, the hangman, awaits.
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