Land God Gave to Cain [Paperback]

Hammond Innes (Author)

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Publication Date: May 22, 1998

Ian Ferguson alone held the key to the disaster that had overtaken a geological survey team more than two thousand miles away. What drove him now to make the perilous journey through the savage, lonely wastes of Labrador to the scene of the disaster? And what was the link between this and similar events which had taken place in that same tcrritory fifty years earlier?

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About the Author

Hammond Innes was born in Sussex in 1913. He has now written thirty international bestsellers, all of which are now being reissued by Pun. It was in the early fifties, with books like The Lonely Skier, Campbell's Kingdom, The White South and The Wreck of the Mary Deare, all of them filmed, that he achieved international fame. His most recent novel is Delta Connection (`rip-snorting adventure ... at a pace so cracking there is little time for reflection -- The Times).

Product Details

• Paperback: 397 pages
• Publisher: Pan Macmillan (May 22, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0330342231
• ISBN-13: 978-0330342230
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,337,964 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Pretty boring, with an implausible plot, August 8, 2009

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David Ljunggren (Ottawa, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Land God Gave to Cain (Paperback)

I forced myself to read to the end of this indifferent slow-paced book because I'm particularly interested in Labrador, one of the most remote parts of Canada. The plot is pretty hackneyed -- Ian Ferguson, a young English engineer, learns his paralysed father (and amateur radio ham) has died. It turns out the father had been following the travails of an expedition looking for gold in distant Labrador, thousands of miles across the Atlantic, and had picked up radio signals indicating the explorers' plane had crashed. As we learn later on, Ferguson's father (Ian's grandfather) had been murdered when looking for the very same gold seam decades earlier. The grandfather was shot dead by a French-Canadian called Laroche, who happens to be the grandfather of one of the Canadians and the only survivor of the plane crash. he reluctantly agrees to accompany the younger Ferguson into the centre of Labrador to find out what happened to the expedition. For me this was a plot contrivance far too far and I fought my way through to the end of the book, not really caring about the characters. At the start of the book Innes explains that he spend a lot of time in Labrador making sure he got the details right. Unfortunately, no one told him that the plot is just as important.