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The Hawkes of Smugglers Cove: Book Two - Bear Country

by Francis E. Caldwell

402 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #07-0756; ISBN 1-4251-2384-8; US$25.75, C$29.61, EUR20.08, £13.31

War, romance, adventure, hardship, doubt... a young Christian couple realize their dream of building a log home in Alaska's wilderness. The author shares half a century of his own love affair with Alaska.

About the Book

In book Two, Adam and Ann Hawke finally completed their log home in Smugglers Cove and start a family, intending to live a quiet, laid back life. Archie Wheeler's boat building business was thriving, and Leif married beautiful Patty Happy. But it was to be a difficult marriage.

The tranquility was suddenly disrupted after Richard Banks, their step father, was killed by a brown bear. Adam and his mother, Violet, reluctantly took over the bear guiding business.

Although the business was successful, the bear that killed Richard continued to kill people, creating both a business opportunity and dreadful liability for Adam, who secretly admired bears. The book ends when two hunters, with hounds, finally corner the notorious killer bear. A gut wrenching fight ends with the death of the bear, two hounds, and Adam's decision to change his guiding business to nature watching.

View the webpage for Book One

Other books by Francis E. Caldwell:
Pacific Troller, 1978, now in 4th printing.
The Ebb & the Flood, 1980, coauthor Donna Caldwell.
Land of the Ocean Mists, 1986, reprinted in 2003.
Beyond the Trails, 1998.
Cassiar's Elusive Gold, 1999
Search for the Amigo, 2000
At Sea, 2002, coauthor Donna Caldwell
Salmon on my Mind, 2004

About the Author

Caldwell is eminently qualified to write about the foggy, rainy, mystical Tongass National Forest of southeast Alaska, its wildlife and the hardy people who live in this wilderness.

Caldwell moved to Alaska in 1950, when Alaska was a Territory, and has authored seven books, five about Alaska, and many magazine articles, about the North. He either lived or operated his own fishing vessel in Alaska for half a century. He's explored almost every cove, fiord, bay and island of southeast Alaska.

He's also intimately familiar with the big brown bears that live on the ABC islands of Admiralty, Baranof and Chicagof.

In this first of three books about the Hawkes of Smugglers Cove, readers will discover the true southeast Alaska, the way it once was, and in many instances, still is. The trials and rigorous life experienced by the Hawkes, as they built a log home and raised a family in the wilderness, is still possible in Alaska today.

Please visit the author's website: www.francisdonnacaldwell.com

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