By Tania Aebi, Bernadette Brennan
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What starts off because the sheer wish for event becomes a religious quest as a tender girl involves phrases along with her kin, her desires, and her first love.
Tania Aebi used to be an unambitious eighteen-year-old, a bicycle messenger in ny urban through day, a reduce East part barfly at evening. in brief, she used to be going nowhere—until her father provided her a problem: Tania might decide on both a faculty schooling or a twenty-six-foot sloop. the one capture used to be that if she selected the sailboat, she’d need to sail round the world—alone.
She selected the boat, and for the following and a part years and 27,000 miles, it was once her domestic. With purely her cat as significant other, she came upon the wondrous beauties of the good Barrier Reef and the death-dealing horrors of the pink Sea. She suffered via a terrifying collision with a tanker within the Mediterranean and a lightning typhoon off the coast of Gibraltar. And, eventually, what all started with the sheer wish for experience changed into a non secular quest as Tania got here to phrases along with her afflicted kin existence, fell in love for the 1st time, and—most of all—confronted her personal wishes, wants, goals, and goals…
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The thought made him laugh. It was not, Sharpe suspected, the anticipation of excitement that had brought Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill to this state of near joviality, but rather the thought that a battle would cause casualties and misery, and misery was the Sergeant's delight. He liked to see men cowed and frightened, for that made them biddable, and Sergeant Hakeswill was always at his happiest when he was in control of unhappy men. The three officers had stopped their horses at the head of the column and now used telescopes to inspect the distant ridge which was clouded by a ragged fringe of smoke left from the last discharge of the enemy cannon.
See it? ' His face twitched again as he released the stock. ' 'Mad as a hare, ' Tom Garrard muttered. ' Hakeswill whipped around to stare at Sharpe, but Sharpe was so palpably still and staring mutely ahead that his innocence was indisputable. Hakeswill paced back down the Light Company. 'I have watched men die, better men than any of you pieces of scum, proper men, but God has spared me! So you do what I says, boys, or else you'll be carrion. ' He abruptly thrust the musket back into Sharpe's hands.
Instead he leaned forward in his saddle with one hand clasped over the tiger hilt of his curved sabre as he watched his infantry march on the infidel British. The sword was slung on a silken sash that crossed the pale yellow silk jacket that the Tippoo wore above chintz trousers. His turban was of red silk and pinned with a gold badge showing a tiger's mask. ' Above it, pinned to the turban's brief white plume and brilliant in the day's sunlight, there glittered a ruby the size of a pigeon's egg.