Author: | E. V. Thompson | ISBN: | 9781405519168 |
Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group | Publication: | July 5, 2012 |
Imprint: | Sphere | Language: | English |
Author: | E. V. Thompson |
ISBN: | 9781405519168 |
Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
Publication: | July 5, 2012 |
Imprint: | Sphere |
Language: | English |
It is 1846: the ship was bound for Australia. Aboard were Josh Retallick and Miriam Thackeray, prisoners destined for the convict settlements . . . until the random hand of fate wrecked their vessel on the Skeleton Coast of South West Africa.
Far from the brooding Bodmin Moor, Josh and Miriam are strangers in a strange and hostile land, an alien world of Bushmen and Hereros, of foraging Boers and greedy traders, of ivory tusks and smuggled guns . . .
It is 1846: the ship was bound for Australia. Aboard were Josh Retallick and Miriam Thackeray, prisoners destined for the convict settlements . . . until the random hand of fate wrecked their vessel on the Skeleton Coast of South West Africa.
Far from the brooding Bodmin Moor, Josh and Miriam are strangers in a strange and hostile land, an alien world of Bushmen and Hereros, of foraging Boers and greedy traders, of ivory tusks and smuggled guns . . .