ISBN |
9781742613468 |
Name |
Watt, Peter, 1949- author. |
Title |
Flight of the eagle Peter Watt. |
Published |
Sydney, N.S.W. : Pan Macmillan Australia, 2013. |
Description |
618 pages : genealogical table, 1 map ; 20 cm. |
Series |
Duffy/Macintosh series |
Notes |
Previously published: Sydney : Pan, 2002. |
Summary |
Captain Patrick Duffy is a man torn between the family of his father, Irish Catholic soldier-of-fortune Michael Duffy and his adoring, scheming maternal grandmother, Enid Mackintosh. Visiting the village of his Irish forbears on a quest to uncover the secrets surrounding, his birth, Patrick is beguiled by the beautiful, mysterious Catherine Fitzgerald. On the rugged Queensland frontier Native Mounted Police trooper Peter Duffy is torn between his duty, the blood of his mother's people - the Nerambura tribe - and a predestined deadly duel with Gordon James, the love of his sister Sarah. |
Subjects |
Frontier and pioneer life -- Queensland -- Fiction |
Australian fiction |
Australia -- History -- 1851-1891 -- Fiction |
Genre |
Australian fiction |
Links to Related Works |
Subject References:
Authors:
Series:
Classification:
|