NOW AVAILABLE AT AMAZON.COM!
M.D. PALLACHE / THE GUAIQUINIMA TALES
CIMARRÓN
The first half of the 17th Century, the early Baroque, the period of absolutism, and the terrible Thirty Years' War. A decrepit Spanish empire is more than ever dependent on high revenues from the new world to finance the deepening conflict against the French. While thousands of enslaved Africans drudge the West Indian tobacco plantations in an inhumane environment, mounted soldiers comb the interior for hidden treasures of the native people. Corrupt representatives of the Spanish crown are sacking large parts of the proceeds for their chests. Around that time, the three-year-old illegitimate daughter of King Phillip IV with his mistress Maria Calderón becomes the only Spanish survivor of a brutal naval battle. Buccaneers attack and sink the galleon that should have taken her and her mother home to Spain. The Scottish Buccaneer Eric McGregor becomes the child's foster father, calling her Ealisad after his deceased wife. Taking the girl aboard his ships from an early age, he teaches her to hand, steer, and reef. After McGregor's death, young Ealisad is driven into a fast-paced series of hair-raising adventures in a world that is still untamed and full of secrets.
Read less
(Kindle, Paperback, Hardcover, English or German)
