From Our Editors
Time-travellers Claire and Jamie Fraser face new places and
challenges in this imaginative tale. When the couple land on
America's shores just before the revolution, their only chance for
survival is to stay and make a life for themselves in the New
World. As the war, a vindictive aunt and the British crown threaten
their existence, they flee into the hills where they think they're
safe. But their daughter, on the other side of time, can see their
fatal future. She's the only one who can save her parents in
Diana Gabaldon's Drums Of
Autumn.n At this low price, why not add it to your
home library.
From the Publisher
In her long awaited new novel, Drums of Autumn,
Diana Gabaldon continues the remarkable story of Claire and Jamie
Fraser that began with the classic Outlander, and
its bestselling sequels, Dragonfly in Amber and
Voyager.
Cast ashore in the American colonies, the Frasers are faced with a
bleak choice: return to a Scotland fallen into famine and poverty,
or seize the risky chance of a new life in the New World-menaced by
Claire''s certain knowledge of the coming Revolution.
Still, a highlander is born to risk-and so is a time-traveler.
Their daughter, Brianna, is safe-they think-on the other side of a
dangerous future; their lives are their own to venture as they
will. With faith in themselves and in each other, they seek a new
beginning among the exiled Scottish Highlanders of the Cape Fear,
in the fertile river valleys of the Colony of North Carolina.
Even in the New World, though, the Frasers find their hope of peace
threatened from without and within; by the British Crown and by
Jamie''s aunt, Jocasta MacKenzie, last of the MacKenzies of
Leoch.
A hunger for freedom drives Jamie to a Highlander''s only true
refuge: the mountains. And here at last, with no challenge to their
peace-save wild animals, Indians, and the threat of starvation-the
Frasers establish a precarious foothold in the wilderness, secure
in the knowledge that even war cannot invade their mountain
sanctuary.
But history spares no one, and when Brianna follows her mother into
the past, not even the mountains can shelter a Highlander. For
Brianna too has an urgent quest: not only to find the mother she
has lost and the father she has never met, but to save them both
from a future that only she can see.
From the Jacket
In her long awaited new novel, "Drums of Autumn, Diana Gabaldon
continues the remarkable story of Claire and Jamie Fraser that
began with the classic "Outlander, and its bestselling sequels,
"Dragonfly in Amber and "Voyager.
Cast ashore in the American colonies, the Frasers are faced with a
bleak choice: return to a Scotland fallen into famine and poverty,
or seize the risky chance of a new life in the New World--menaced
by Claire''s certain knowledge of the coming Revolution.
Still, a highlander is born to risk--and so is a time-traveler.
Their daughter, Brianna, is safe--they think--on the other side of
a dangerous future; their lives are their own to venture as they
will. With faith in themselves and in each other, they seek a new
beginning among the exiled Scottish Highlanders of the Cape Fear,
in the fertile river valleys of the Colony of North Carolina.
Even in the New World, though, the Frasers find their hope of peace
threatened from without and within; by the British Crown and by
Jamie''s aunt, Jocasta MacKenzie, last of the MacKenzies of Leoch.
A hunger for freedom drives Jamie to a Highlander''s only true
refuge: the mountains. And here at last, with no challenge to their
peace--save wild animals, Indians, and the threat of
starvation--the Frasers establish a precarious foothold in the
wilderness, secure in the knowledge that even war cannot invade
their mountain sanctuary.
But history spares no one, and when Brianna follows her mother into
the past, not even the mountains can shelter a Highlander. For
Brianna too has an urgent quest: not only to find the mother she
has lost and the father she has never met, but to save them both
from a future that only shecan see.
About the Author
Diana Gabaldon is the New York Times bestselling author of
Lord John and the Private Matter and the wildly
popular Outlander novels. She won a 2006 Quill Award for her most
recent Outlander novel, A Breath of Snow and
Ashes.
Hardcover
896 Pages, 6.4 x 9.5 x 2 IN
December 30, 1996
Random House Publishing Group
English
0385311400
9780385311403