Book description
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 .
. .
E. V. Thompson was born in London and spent nine years in the Navy
before joining the Bristol police. He moved to Hong Kong, then Rhodesia
and had over 200 stories published before returning to England to become
a full-time award-winning writer.
