William E. Barrett

Vorspiel Im großen Krankensaal des Missionshospitals, einem weißen, langgestreckten Raum, standen zwei Reihen genau ausgeriditeter Betten. Vor wenigen Monaten noch war ihre Zahl unzureichend gewesen, jetzt aber war nur die Hälfte davon belegt. Die Bevölkerung hatte das Vertrauen zum Hospital...

Richard Seaton sat alone and gazed out at the lights of San Francisco from the Top of the Mark. His left arm throbbed painfully from the second of his two cholera shots. But his mind was fixed on other matters. He had begun to feel a growing sense of adventure. He had never been west of Chicago;...

the beginningMe was born on the running tide. The sea and the rain cleaned him, the wind dried him, and the sun-hot stones warmed his body. He was an Atlantic gray seal, and his name was Haljc.It was October, and the dying breath of summer hung warm and fragrant over land and sea. To the east lay...

i^f lilPIIIiia.lA pf' ' . , .,-v.'- ft' ' /.ft ^^ ^^wsissiiiiiachapter oneThe heart of the Scottish Highlands is a long way to come from China, butall because of a few Chinese characters splashed down the side of a scroll with a drawing of a birdI had come. Unbidden, unexpected, for all I knew...

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