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Lädt ... A Treacherous Countryvon K.M. Kruimink, Katherine Kruimink
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There is a woman, somewhere, here, in Van Diemen's Land, unless she had died or otherwise departed, called Maryanne Maginn. Gabriel Fox, the young son of an old English house, arrives in a land both ancient and new. Drawn by the promise of his heart's desire, and compelled to distance himself from pain at home, Gabriel begins his quest into Van Diemen's Land. His guide, a Cannibal who is not all he seems, leads him north where Gabriel might free himself of his distracting burden and seek the woman he must find. As Gabriel traverses this wild country, he uncovers new truths buried within his own memory. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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When the story begins, Gabriel is in the company of a shaggy Irishman he calls his Cannibal, en route from Hobart to a failed whaling station, which his escort wants him to buy (because in forty years the whales have been harvested almost to extinction). Gabriel has arrived from Sydney where he gambled away everything he had in exchange for some possibly useless American harpoons, only to be conned into buying a stolen horse, which is subsequently stolen from him in turn. He seems a nice young man, but gullible to a fault, and not just because he has fallen victim to skulduggery. He has journeyed across the world on a quest is to find Maryanne Maginn, transported some 25 years beforehand, to please the guardian of his lady love, and thus to win her hand.
As it turns out, he is deluded about that, and everything else as well.
Kruimink lives in the Huon Valley, and her familiarity with the Tasmanian landscape gives her prose a bleak authenticity:
Alas for Gabriel, this freedom leads him to take part in a whale hunt (which I did not enjoy reading, for the same reasons I disliked Moby Dick, but the chapter is mercifully short, which Moby Dick is not). He barely escapes with his life. His companion Cook does not, but back on dry land, in Mrs Heron's modest house, Gabriel's reflections on his experience are rather droll...
To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2020/05/15/a-treacherous-country-by-k-m-kruimink-2020-v... ( )