• THE FAR HORIZON -- READERS' FAVORITE BOOK AWARD WINNER

"The writing is excellent. Lachlan's wife and adopted son are fantastic secondary characters, but the driving force is Lachlan. The challenges he faces are universal, but in this they are personal. The book may be historical, but it sheds light on a larger, contemporary world." -- BOOKLIFE PRIZE

As a young British officer, Lachlan Macquarie served his country in America, the West Indies, India and Egypt, but now he is being asked to go to a wilderness on the other side of the world where famine and strife amongst the inhabitants is flourishing. A firm hand is needed, but when he arrives as the new British commander, Lachlan surprises the population by not being old and tyrannical like former rulers sent out by Britain, but full of life and exuberance, and by showing them he is not only firm, he is also fair -- a surprise that even the indigenous Aboriginal people appreciate, especially when Lachlan takes up the cause against some of the prejudiced white settlers.

George Jarvis, now grown to a young man, travels with him, and it is here hat George meets Mary Neely, a young, embittered English convict girl, who falls in love with George and learns from him about the goodness of life.Set in the early nineteenth century, The Far Horizon is based on the true story of the genesis of a nation, and the man who turned a convict colony into a country, and named it Australia.

THE FAR HORIZON - READERS' FAVORITE BOOK AWARD WINNER
A stand-alone novel, and also the second book in the Macquarie Series

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