The Far Horizon

A COMPLETE STAND-ALONE NOVEL - AND BOOK 2 OF THE MACQUARIE SERIES. GRETTA CURRAN BROWNE has to date been internationally published by six European publishers and also by publishers in Japan and China. FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF "TREAD SOFTLY ON MY DREAMS" 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 are flourishing. A firm hand is needed, but when he arrives Lachlan surprises the population by showing them he is not only firm, he is also fair. George Jarvis, now grown to a young man, travels with him, and it is there George meets Mary Neely, a young, embittered English 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 a story about the genesis of a nation, and the man who turned a convict colony into a country, and named it Australia. Gretta Curran Browne's books have been internationally published in translation throughout Europe and Japan.**