Harold Bindloss

The Cattle-Baron'S Daughter

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Produktbeschreibung

A brave heart and a stubborn land meet in the raw beauty of the frontier. The Cattle-Baron's Daughter charts grit, romance, and a woman's frontier independence against the sprawling canvas of late nineteenth-century western Canada. This tale blends adventure novel energy with intimate rural romance, following lives braided with cattle ranching life, community loyalties, and the stubborn courage needed to harness a harsh landscape. It invites both casual readers and classic-literature collectors to savor rugged frontier fiction that feels lived and immediate, where moral choices loom as large as the country, and where colonial adventure narratives illuminate a pivotal era. Harold Bindloss sustains a humane, observant tone that respects historical context while delivering a story of personal resolve and social change. Although rooted in its period, the work speaks to modern sensibilities about resilience, kinship, and the cost of progress in remote communities. It is valued by historical fiction readers for its authentic textures of law, work, and kinship; by classic literary readers for its measured prose and immersive atmosphere; and by lovers of western Canada setting for its sweeping landscapes and frontier atmosphere. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, this edition is restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - it is a collector's item and a cultural treasure, a testament to a bygone era that still speaks with relevance and wonder.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Alpha Editions
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9789354849336
• ISBN-10: 9354849334
• Artikelnr.: 62607029

Autorenporträt

Harold Bindloss was an English novelist who published a number of adventure tales set in western Canada, as well as in England and West Africa. His writing was mostly based on his own experiences as a seaman, dock worker, farmer, and planter. Bindloss was born on April 6, 1866 in Wavertree, Liverpool, England. The eldest son of Edward Williams Bindloss, an iron dealer who employed six men at the time of the 1881 census. Bindloss has three sisters and four brothers. He spent several years at sea and in several colonies, most notably in Africa, before returning to England in 1896, his health ravaged by malaria. He appears to have started out as a clerk in a shipping office, but this did not suit his adventurous nature, and he later became a farmer in Canada, a sailor, a dock worker, and a planter. He returned to England in 1896, likely from West Africa, afflicted with malaria. Given that he spent more than a decade at sea and in the colonies, it is likely that his time overseas was divided into two parts: first as a youth, and then as a young man after 1891.