I was born in the cottage hospital of Fyvie in Aberdeenshire in 1961. I grew up on various farms in Aberdeenshire until I was eleven and then our family moved to Morayshire. I did not enjoy High School there. I was frequently belted for not being able to do my homework or producing illegible work most teachers couldn't read or couldn't be bothered trying to read. As a result of this, I was often shoved into special needs classes where the teacher taught nothing but religion. At the age of fifteen, a month before my sixteenth birthday I joined the British Army. I remember the recruiting sergeant coming out laughing with my test results in his hands and telling me I could not get a trade in the army as my test results were too low. I didn't care, I wanted to run up and down hills with a gun and blow shit up. Thankfully I was bright enough for that and I joined the infantry. I served a total of seven years under the colours, from the jungles of Central America to the streets of Northern Ireland. My home and family were the men of the 1st Battalion The Gordon Highlanders.
When I left the Army I found getting a job extremely difficult at first. My first job was driving a chippy van and my first full-time job was at ICI Powfoot where I made gunpowder. From there I have had many jobs. I have worked in building sites and on the roads. In peat bogs and kitchens washing dishes. I have waited tables and driven furniture removal vans. Picked fruit and vegetables in season and driven Taxis. In essence, I could and would turn my hand to whatever put food on the table and kept a roof over my head.
At the age of twenty-five and having been a year unemployed I reached one of the major milestones in my life. Disillusioned and getting desperate I was persuaded to try a part-time course at the college. Of course, I had to pick the one thing that scared me the most, computers. It was to my great surprise that not only was I able to complete the course but I enjoyed it as well. So I signed up for a full year. For the first time in my life, I found that I could communicate with people on the same level. It was a revelation. It was then I began to suspect for the first time that I wasn't as stupid as I had been led to believe throughout my life to that point. However, the winds of fate picked me up and blew me away before I could take it any farther and it was another twenty-five years before I would return to pick up where I had left off.
Thi...
When word reaches the Highlands that The Great Sea King once more threatens all nations and communications is suddenly cut off from the Lowlands. The Great Highland Council sends a hundred and twenty hand picked Highland warriors under the command of Gareth Ogilvie to discover what is happening. Behind them the Highland Nation prepares for war, while Gareth leads this band of men, most of them life long enemy's in to the adventure of a life time. They will fight in battles of epic proportions, facing prehistoric monsters with little more than long spears. Myth and magic grip the Lowlands as the Great Sea King, the most powerful wizard in the world attempts to seize the last kingdom not under his power by subversion. Love potions, magic mists and invisibility cloaks, are only a part of what this mage will get up to, to win for himself the great lands of Clover. How will Gareth Ogilvie and his Warrior band stop this Evil, step inside and see. With beautiful Princesses, Giant War Eagles and their riders, there is plenty here to feast the imagination. Their journey will take them from the mountains of their homeland with peeks that rival the Himalayas, to burning deserts in a sea of bones. Join the greatest warriors of their times as they fight the biggest battles of their lives and fall in love.
Título : Gareth Ogilvie The Highland War Chieftain
EAN : 9781311808394
Editorial : J W Murison
El libro electrónico Gareth Ogilvie The Highland War Chieftain está en formato ePub
¿Quieres leer en un eReader de otra marca? Sigue nuestra guía.
Puede que no esté disponible para la venta en tu país, sino sólo para la venta desde una cuenta en Francia.
Si la redirección no se produce automáticamente, haz clic en este enlace.
Conectarme
Mi cuenta