Going Home: A Barnaby Skye Novel
Nov 2001 · Skye's West Book 11 · Sold by Forge Books
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In 1832, legendary mountain man Barnaby Skye's journey home to England turns into a perilous fight for survival across the untamed American West.
Six years after deserting the Royal Navy, Barnaby Skye has a chance to return to England to clear his name and take up employment with the Hudson's Bay Company. But "Mister Skye," as he insists on being called, is as much a magnet for trouble as he is a legend among mountain men, and this opportunity of a lifetime begins to disintegrate almost from the moment it is presented to him.
With his devoted Crow wife, Victoria, an eccentric botanist named Alistair Nutmeg, and a strange pariah dog following along, Skye makes his way west to Fort Vancouver in the Oregon country to begin his journey home. Adept at dodging Blackfeet war parties and staving off starvation, Skye's luck—generally bad to begin with—runs out when the Hudson's Bay ship Cadboro makes a stopover in Mexican California.
In Going Home, Skye fights Mexican bandits, murderous Pacific coastal Indians, thirst, starvation, and despair, as he learns where home really is and what honor truly means in this gripping tale of survival set in the wild American frontier of the 19th century.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Six years after deserting the Royal Navy, Barnaby Skye has a chance to return to England to clear his name and take up employment with the Hudson's Bay Company. But "Mister Skye," as he insists on being called, is as much a magnet for trouble as he is a legend among mountain men, and this opportunity of a lifetime begins to disintegrate almost from the moment it is presented to him.
With his devoted Crow wife, Victoria, an eccentric botanist named Alistair Nutmeg, and a strange pariah dog following along, Skye makes his way west to Fort Vancouver in the Oregon country to begin his journey home. Adept at dodging Blackfeet war parties and staving off starvation, Skye's luck—generally bad to begin with—runs out when the Hudson's Bay ship Cadboro makes a stopover in Mexican California.
In Going Home, Skye fights Mexican bandits, murderous Pacific coastal Indians, thirst, starvation, and despair, as he learns where home really is and what honor truly means in this gripping tale of survival set in the wild American frontier of the 19th century.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
In 1832, legendary mountain man Barnaby Skye's journey home to England turns into a perilous fight for survival across the untamed American West.
Six years after deserting the Royal Navy, Barnaby Skye has a chance to return to England to clear his name and take up employment with the Hudson's Ba...
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Richard S.Wheeler has written over fifty novels and several short stories. He has won four Spur Awards and the Owen Wister Award for lifetime achievement in the field of western literature.
He lives in the literary and film community of Livingston, Montana, and is married to Professor Sue Hart, of Montana State University-Billings. Before turning to fiction he was a newsman and book editor. He has raised horses and been a wrangler at an Arizona dude ranch.
Richard S.Wheeler has written over fifty novels and several short stories. He has won four Spur Awards and the Owen Wister Award for lifetime achievement in the field of western literature.
He lives in the literary and film community of Livingston, Montana, and is married to Professor Sue Hart, ...
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