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| Books LLC : Outlander: Dragonfly in Amber, a Breath of Snow and Ashes, the Fiery Cross, Drums of Autumn, Voyager, an Echo in the Bone | |
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Outlander: Dragonfly in Amber, a Breath of Snow and Ashes, the Fiery Cross, Drums of Autumn, Voyager, an Echo in the Bone |
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English |
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Paperback |
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36 |
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2010-09-15 |
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1157261590 |
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Books LLC |
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0.13 pounds |
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5.83 x 8.82 x 0.24 inches |
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Chapters: Dragonfly in Amber, a Breath of Snow and Ashes, the Fiery Cross, Drums of Autumn, Voyager, an Echo in the Bone. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 34. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Outlander (published in the UK as Cross Stitch) is the first in a series of novels (currently seven) by Diana Gabaldon. The book focuses on two main characters, Claire Randall (née Beauchamp) and Jamie Fraser, and takes place in eighteenth and twentieth-century Scotland. The novel is not easily classified by genre. On one level, the work is a romance novel with a focus on the romantic relationship between the two main characters. However, the book breaks certain romance genre conventionsthe heroine, for instance, is slightly older and more experienced than the hero. The book could be described as a work of historical fiction with a detailed account of eighteenth century Scottish clan life. The novel could also be considered science fiction with a plot propelled by time travel when Claire journeys from the 1940s to the eighteenth century. It was awarded the RITA Award for "Best romance novel" of 1991. Claire Randall is a practical woman, a nurse in the British Army during World War II. She and her husband Frank, who were separated during the war, have recently reunited and are enjoying a second honeymoon in Inverness, Scotland. They married there and Frank combined their holiday with some research into his family tree, investigating an ancestor named "Black Jack" Randall, who was a Captain in the Army in the 18th century. After seeing some traditional Scottish sites, such as Loch Ness, Claire goes plant-gathering with an amateur botanist. He shows her a group of standing stones on the hill of Craigh na Dun. Claire tells Frank and he tells her that a group of local women will be enacting a paga...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3012644
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