Name: The Emir's Falcon
SKU: 54565481
Price: 23.61 EUR
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Author: Hughes, Matt
ISBN: 9781989398319

Type

Physical Book

Author

Matt Hughes

Publisher

Shadowpaw Press Premiere

Language

English

Pages

196

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.6x14x1.1 cm

Weight

0.24 kg.

ISBN13

9781989398319

Synopsis "The Emir's Falcon "

"She was raised to be free, not some rich man's pet . . . It's just not right!"Bernie Cholach's dad wants him to take over the family's rural Alberta feedlot, but Bernie has other ideas: he wants to be a biologist, an interest sparked by his experiences as a volunteer bird handler at a Canadian Wildlife Service facility that breeds and rears peregrine falcons for release into the wild.Sheik Nasur bin Mukhta, son of a Persian Gulf emir, studying petroleum engineering at the University of Alberta, dutifully accepts his life's course, laid out for him by his traditionalist culture.Rosie Leboucan, daughter of a Métis trapper, running her injured dad's trap line in the Swan Hills, is focused on keeping a roof over their heads and food on the table.Then the Government of Canada decides to give the emir one of the peregrines as a diplomatic gift. It's more than Bernie can stand. Impulsively, he takes the bird he has been tending-he's named it Skyrider-and flees to a remote cabin in the Swan Hills wilderness.The RCMP mount a search. Nasur, sent by his father to collect the bird, insists on being on the scene-which turns out to be both Rosie's trapping territory and the territory of a hungry and dangerous mama grizzly bear with cubs.The paths of the young people and the bear converge-and their coming together will send each in a new direction.

Matt Hughes

(Author)

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Artist and designer, Matt's work has been displayed in galleries around the world and has appeared in numerous publications. Ingeniously blending the romantic aesthetic beauty of Art Nouveau with the dark concepts of gothic art, painter Matt Hughes is best known for giving rise to Gothic Art Nouveau, a new artistic movement. Matt currently resides in Atlanta.

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