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London 1759 and Jack's life is easy. A scholar at Westminster School, a master with cricket bat or billiard cue, the leader of a gang of bucks about the Town, he has both a girl he worships ...and a courtesan teaching him the more basic arts of love. Yet he plans to give up all carousing, sit the examinations for Cambridge, find a career in any field he chooses. If he can just stay out of trouble for one night... From the billiard halls and brothels of London to a clash of Empires on the Plains of Abraham, Jack life is forever altered by the tragedies of that night. Through duels, battles, frantic escapes and a brutal winter spent in a cave in Canada, Jack learns the truth of his father's words... as well as a dozen things to do with a dead bear. A year on, the schoolboy will vanish, a man appear. But first he must learn to kill. To come of age, Jack Absolute must be blooded.
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The Blooding of Jack Absolute, Chris Humphreys
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2005
- Einband
- (Hardcover)
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- Titel
- The Blooding of Jack Absolute
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Chris Humphreys
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2005
- Einband
- Hardcover
- Seitenzahl
- 311
- ISBN10
- 0752857053
- ISBN13
- 9780752857053
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Historische Romane, Kriege, Britische Literatur, Kanada, Briten
- Bewertung
- 3,8 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- London 1759 and Jack's life is easy. A scholar at Westminster School, a master with cricket bat or billiard cue, the leader of a gang of bucks about the Town, he has both a girl he worships ...and a courtesan teaching him the more basic arts of love. Yet he plans to give up all carousing, sit the examinations for Cambridge, find a career in any field he chooses. If he can just stay out of trouble for one night... From the billiard halls and brothels of London to a clash of Empires on the Plains of Abraham, Jack life is forever altered by the tragedies of that night. Through duels, battles, frantic escapes and a brutal winter spent in a cave in Canada, Jack learns the truth of his father's words... as well as a dozen things to do with a dead bear. A year on, the schoolboy will vanish, a man appear. But first he must learn to kill. To come of age, Jack Absolute must be blooded.