Brendan Frain

Exile (eBook, ePUB)

An American Romance

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Boundless McLennan, a young Scottish printer, is sentenced to indentured servitude in the American colonies. Upon landing in the New World, he escapes and learns of a marvellous beast inhabiting the far western plains. To avoid recapture he assumes a new identity and secures employment on a shallop that travels up and down the Patapsco River ferrying cargo to farms and plantations. An itinerant trapper feeds his curiosity about buffaloes. He kills a gambler in self-defence and abandons the boat and his companions for fear of his real identity being discovered. He becomes lost in the immense wilderness but is saved through encountering Mose, a trapper.

Mose takes Boundless under his wing and seduces him with tales of endless grasslands beyond the Alleghenies where the buffalo are rumoured to be so plentiful that 'Jehovah himself could not count the heads'. Together, they set out on an epic adventure across a thousand miles of wilderness full of dangers-from bandits, wild animals, hostile Indians, and a brutal war between England and France for possession of the New World. Despite the perils of the journey, Boundless is determined to lay eyes on the mysterious creature that beckons him to his destiny on the vast, windswept plains.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Monuments of Grass
• Seitenzahl: 487
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781764005173
• Artikelnr.: 74772147

Autorenporträt

Brendan grew up in the middle ages--that's the 1950s--in an England still suffering from post-war shortages and rationing. The scenes of American abundance on black and white tv gripped a young boy's imagination. Here was a magic kingdom of novelty and adventure where everything seemed possible. Those early impressions formed the seedbed for his debut series of novels set on the Great Plains of North America. After moving to Canada in 1972, he attended the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. It was there that he met the great love of his life, Satguna ('Sat') Devi, who inspired and encouraged him up until her untimely death in 2019. Brendan lives in a bayside suburb of Melbourne