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GABALDON, DIANA - Voyager

Title: Voyager
Description: New York, NY: Delacorte Press, 1993. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0385302320. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends of the book cover. The bottom edge of the rear board has a strip of very light fading / discoloration. This is a stated first edition. The text pages are clean and bright. This copy has a sewn binding. The dust jacket has one small nick with rubbing to the top rear corner. The reverse of the dust jacket has some discoloration displaced from the rear book cover. "In 1988, Gabaldon decided to write a novel for "practice, just to learn how", and with no intention to show it to anyone. As a research professor, she decided that a historical novel would be easiest to research and write, but she had no background in history and initially no particular time period in mind. Gabaldon happened to see a rerun episode of the Doctor Who science fiction TV series titled "The War Games." One of the Doctor's companions was a Scot from around 1745, a young man about 17 years old named Jamie McCrimmon, who provided the initial inspiration for her main male character, James Fraser, and for her novel's mid-18th century Scotland setting. Gabaldon decided to have "an Englishwoman to play-off all these kilted Scotsmen," but her female character "took over the story and began telling it herself, making smart-ass modern remarks about everything." " (from Wikipeda). Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

Keywords: 0385302320 Modern Fiction First Edition Diana Gabaldon Historical Fiction Scotland Time Travel

Price: US$ 85.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 43928

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