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The Loyalists

Vivian Stuart

Casa editrice: Skinnbok

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The twenty-second book in the dramatic and intriguing story about the colonisation of Australia: a country made of blood, passion, and dreams.
 
Australia is back to fighting with the British against the Boers in South Africa.
 
Sloan Shannon are amongst those fighting against the Boers. He is wounded and captured, but finds himself saved by a Boar nurse. Suddenly, he must flee with her to her people – those people that he thought was his enemies.
Disponibile da: 22/09/2023.
Lunghezza di stampa: 300 pagine.

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