Wildtrack/The India Fan/Drifting Home/Jack [antikvár]

In this volumeWILDTRACKby Bemard CornwellNick Sandman has come home to England a hero. Wounded in Britain's Falklands War, he has been stubbornly fighting his way back to health ever since. But Nick has never felt much like a hero. He longs only for the day when he can sail away on his cherished yacht, alone and free. That escape proves elusive, however. To make his boát seaworthy, Nick is forced to strike an unsavory bargain that entangles hím in a feud between two wealthy menand in a love he never expected. Then the feud turns deadly, and Nick is suddenly swept from his snug harbor to the stormy Atlantic, where his courage is challenged as never before. / Page 7THE INDIA FANby Victoria HoltTheir lives were intertwined from childhood: bright, dependable Drusilla Delany, daughter of a village clergyman, and the two spoiled children of the wealthy Framling familyhandsome, arrogant Fabian and his sister, the reckless Lavinia. Bound by the past, they find their fates linked as well by the mysterious legacy of the India fan, said to bring ill fortune to all who possess it. And when sudden violence threatens the three young lives, even Drusilla wonders if the legend might really be true. An exhilarating növel of love and adventure, set against the colorful background of Victorian England and exotic India. / Page 165DRIFTING HOMEby Pierre BertonThe spectacular Yukon River system, its canyons, creeks and ghost towns were a familiar backdrop to Pierre Berton's idyllic childhood. As an aduit, he returned to the Yukon with his own children on a summer rafting odyssey which retraced the route of the Klondike gold rush and ended in Dawson, Berton s old hometown. For the author, the trip was a nostalgic drift home to his roots; for the Berton children, it was a voyage of discovery, enriched by their father s profound sense of the connection between past and future. A touchingly humán journal from one of Canada's preeminent writers. / Page 317JACKby Brian CarterAmid the mud and squalor of the Somme valley in 1916, a young corporal searches from battery to battery for his red roan mare, Bethlehem. The Somme is a long way from the tranquil Devon pastures where Jack McKenna had groomed and schooled Beth as a workhorse for Chancellor's Emporium. But that was in a happier age. Now, Jack has only one ambition: to release Beth from the terrors of hauling ammunition through the gas and mud and shellfire of the Front Line. And to free her from her toil he is prepared to pay any price Jack is not simply the poignant story of one man's love for a horse: it is above all a powerful testimony to the horror of war. / Page 419