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Jackie French, award-winning author of Let the Land Speak, writes an exclusive guest blog for Booktoberfest

It began with a goat. I found the goat one lazy Sunday afternoon, uploading old copies of newspapers to see what the English thought about James Cook after the Endeavour got home. And there she was, hailed as a heroine: the goat who saved the ship. Cook even took her home with him. Three years away in the South Seas, and what does he take his family? One smelly, stroppy old nanny goat. The Brit... Read more

by | October 18, 2013