The Emir's Falcon

Matt Hughes

Description

"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.

Sujets

• Fiction Ado
• Survival Stories
• Young Adult Fiction
• Science & Nature
• General officer
• Environment
• Animals
• General
• Adventure
• Action
• Alberta

Informations

• Publié par: Shadowpaw Press
• Date de parution: 27 septembre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 22
• EAN13: 9781989398333
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 557 Mo

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