![]() ![]() In doing so their friendship was tested to the limits. As their reputations grew, the two young men, with their handsewn mocassins and extraordinary marksmanship, became both the pride and fear of their regiment as the stalked the ripe killing fields of Ypres and the Somme. In turn, Xavier relates the horrifying years of war in Europe: how he and his best friend, Elijah Whiskeyjack, prowled the battlefields of France and Belgium as snipers of remarkable skill. The following year they set up a timber mill at Jackson's Track-a dreamtime place-in the rich temperate forests of south-eastern Victoria. As Niska paddles him the three days home, she realises that all she can offer in her attempt to keep him alive is her words: the stories of her life. In 1936, at the height of the Great Depression, Daryl Tonkin and his brother Harry head to the bush searching for work and adventure. Xavier Bird, her only living relative, gravely wounded and addicted to the army's morphine, hovers somewhere between the worlds of the living and the dead. ![]() She leaves her home in the snowy southern wilderness and paddles her canoe upriver to retrieve him, only to discover that the one she expected is the other. Jacksons Track Paperback Maby Carolyn Landon Daryl Tonkin (Author) 10 ratings Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Paperback 25.59 4 Used from 22. It is 1919, and Niska, the last Canadian Indian medicine woman to live off the land, has received word that one of her two boys she grudgingly saw off to the Great War has returned. ![]()
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