Rising Sun (Pb) by Douglas Galbraith

Rising Sun (Pb) by Douglas Galbraith

It is the end of the seventeenth century, and the Rising Sun, the biggest of a five-ship flotilla, is making the perilous trip to Darien on the northern coast of Panama. With it go all the hopes and fears of the Scottish people who, driven at last to defiance of their jealous and powerful neighbour, wholeheartedly throw themselves into the scramble for empire and trade, the quest for untold riches and the discovery of a promised land.The narrator is Roderick Mackenzie, a young Scot of ambition, cunning - and naivity. Having secured for himself a place aboard the Rising Sun, he becomes the expeditions self-appointed chronicler - a task that turns out to be very different to the one that he had anticipated, as optimism turns to despair, comradeship to rivalry, and the brave colonial life to a long and heartbreaking struggle with rain, mud and disease. 'We finish the book with strong feelings of gratitude for the amount and the variety of fictional entertainment it has provided. Its publication propels Douglas Galbraith to a place among the very best of our historical novelists' Observer 'Racier than the Cutty Sark, and saltier than a barrel of anchovies, the book is a sea-faring yarn to be savoured' Daily Telegraph

'We finish the book with strong feelings of gratitude for the amount and the variety of fictional entertainment it has providedIts publication propels Douglas Galbraith to a place among the very best of our historical novelists' Observer 'Racier than the Cutty Sark, and saltier than a barrel of anchovies, the book is a sea-faring yarn to be savoured' Daily Telegraph

Douglas Galbraith was born in Scotland in 1965 and educated in Glasgow and at St Andrews. He has lived in the south of England for the last ten years. The Rising Sun is his first novel.

SKU	GOR002256919
ISBN 13	9780330372985
ISBN 10	033037298X
Title	Rising Sun (Pb)
Author	Douglas Galbraith
Condition	Very Good
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pan Macmillan
Year published	2001-09-07
Number of pages	528
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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