The Hawkes of Smugglers Cove

About the Book

The principle characters in The Hawkes of Smugglers Cove are Adam Hawke, a handsome Alaskan and Ann Hollister, a beautiful and talented nurse from San Diego. Adam had been severely wounded by a German shell burst while fighting with the Allies in Belgium. He was not expected to live and was placed in an Allied field hospital tent at Dover.

Adam explained to Ann that he couldn't die, because he owned 80 acres of wilderness land at, Smugglers Cove, one of the most beautiful places in southeast Alaska, and he had to build a log home there. Ann thought this was only the desperate dream of a dying soldier. Despite their different in cultural backgrounds, the spark of love was ignited. Much later Ann admitted that's when she fell in love with Adam.

After an on again, off again courtship, separated by 3000 miles, they finally married and did build their dream home in Alaska.

But it wasn't without sacrifice. Ann was an accomplished pianist and Christian. There was no church, they didn't own a boat and Adam's war wounds flared up again and he began bleeding in the lungs.

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

"Two survivors of the horrors of World War I and the Great Flu Epidemic of 1918 search for peace, and find inspiration and hope for the world in Alaska's rugged wilderness. They struggle with doubt and faith to build their dream log home in the land of Alaska's big bears."
Joe Sebastian, Alaskan fisherman, who has struggled to build his own homes on Kupreanof Island and at Point Baker.

"Readers of The Hawkes of Smugglers Cove are fortunate to learn about life in early-day Alaska from an author who lived there, hunted, fished and explored Alaska for half a century.

This is a story for people who yearned to become Alaskans when the 'Last Frontier' was a Mecca for the adventurous, but, for various reasons, didn't."
Calvin Larsen, Commander, U.S. Navy, retired, and world traveled photographer.

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