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The Deserter is the first e book of the Alford Saga. Imagine you're in a swaying hammock on the English man-o'war around 1800, traveling out a severe spring storm in a deserted estuary. Behind those high red cliffs lie a hundred miles of uncharted wilderness, populated only by ferocious indigenous peoples. If you jump dispatch and are caught, you'll be brand a deserter - subject to death by 1000 lashes. What is it possible to bring to help you survive? Within minutes, the ice-strewn waters will freeze your system and lay claim your soul. Even though this were your one opportunity for a life in the New World, can you bounce? Thomas Manning did, and his jump into uncertainty starts the epic tale of any pioneer family, one of the many who built our great nation. Through his and his descendants' eye, we watch one small community's effect on the great events which swirl about them and bring conflicts they need to face in their struggles to make homes and young families. After Thomas Manning's jump to freedom, he's captured by the Mi'kmaq, has life intimidating encounters with wild animals, livesthrough a barren winter in the highlands of the caribou with a tribe who befriends him and falls for a Mi'kmaq maiden. Absorbing, touching and filled with excursion, The Deserter is E book One of the Alford saga, a string chronicling 200 many years of Canadian background, as seen through the eye of any settler's family.
