Drums of Autumn - Outlander

Zusatztext The New York Times Bestseller A featured alternate selection of the Literary Guild and the Doubleday Book Club "Unforgettable characters...richly embroidered with historical detail...I just can't put it down."— Cincinnati Post " Drums of Autumn is Diana Gabaldon at her finest and most mesmerizing."— Affaire de Coeur "Passionate...remarkable—a mix of history! fantasy! romance and unabashedly ribald storytelling."— Arizona Republic "Wonderful....this is escapist historical fiction at its best."— San Antonio Express-News Informationen zum Autor Diana Gabaldon is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the wildly popular Outlander novels— Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voy­ager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes (for which she won a Quill Award and the Corine International Book Prize), An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart’s Blood , and Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone —as well as the related Lord John Grey books, Lord John and the Private Matter, Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade, Lord John and the Hand of Devils, and The Scottish Prisoner; a collection of novellas, Seven Stones to Stand or Fall; three works of nonfiction, “I Give You My Body . . .” and The Outlandish Com­panion, Volumes 1 and 2; the Outlander graphic novel The Exile; and The Official Outlander Coloring Book . She lives in Scottsdale, Arizona, with her husband. Klappentext The magnificent saga continues.... It began in Scotland, at an ancient stone circle. There, a doorway, open to a select few, leads into the past—or the grave. Claire Randall survived the extraordinary passage, not once but twice. Her first trip swept her into the arms of Jamie Fraser, an eighteenth-century Scot whose love for her became legend—a tale of tragic passion that ended with her return to the present to bear his child. Her second journey, two decades later, brought them together again in frontier America. But Claire had left someone behind in the twentieth century. Their daughter, Brianna.... Now Brianna has made a disturbing discovery that sends her to the stone circle and a terrifying leap into the unknown. In search of her mother and the father she has never met, she is risking her own future to try to change history...and to save their lives. But as Brianna plunges into an uncharted wilderness, a heartbreaking encounter may strand her forever in the past...or root her in the place she should be, where her heart and soul belong.... Leseprobe 1 A Hanging in Eden Charleston, June 1767 I heard the drums long before they came in sight. The beating echoed in the pit of my stomach, as though I too were hollow. The sound traveled through the crowd, a harsh military rhythm meant to be heard over speech or gunfire. I saw heads turn as the people fell silent, looking up the stretch of East Bay Street, where it ran from the half-built skeleton of the new Customs House toward White Point Gardens. It was a hot day, even for Charleston in June. The best places were on the seawall, where the air moved; here below, it was like being roasted alive. My shift was soaked through, and the cotton bodice clung between my breasts. I wiped my face for the tenth time in as many minutes and lifted the heavy coil of my hair, hoping vainly for a cooling breeze upon my neck. I was morbidly aware of necks at the moment. Unobtrusively, I put my hand up to the base of my throat, letting my fingers circle it. I could feel the pulse beat in my carotid arteries, along with the drums, and when I breathed, the hot wet air clogged my throat as though I were choking. I quickly took my hand down, and drew in a breath as deep as I could manage. That was a mistake. The man in...

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The New York Times Bestseller

A featured alternate selection of the Literary Guild and the Doubleday Book Club

"Unforgettable characters...richly embroidered with historical detail...I just can't put it down." Cincinnati Post

"Drums of Autumn is Diana Gabaldon at her finest and most mesmerizing." Affaire de Coeur

"Passionate...remarkable a mix of history, fantasy, romance and unabashedly ribald storytelling." Arizona Republic

"Wonderful....this is escapist historical fiction at its best." San Antonio Express-News

Product details

• Authors: Diana Gabaldon
• Publisher: Dell Publishing Inc.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 10.11.1997
• EAN: 9780440224259
• ISBN: 978-0-440-22425-9
• No. of pages: 1120
• Dimensions: 106 mm x 175 mm x 45 mm
• Series: Dell Paperbacks; Highland-Saga; Outlander; Highland-Saga / Outlander; Outlander; Highland-Saga / Outlander
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature