Mountain Pride
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Leif O'Connor is a young man who was born and raised in the Central Highlands of Tasmania. The passenger plane in which he was travelling has crashed in the snow-laden Central highlands in the dead of winter.
He leaves the passengers knowing that they will soon be rescued. He is unconcerned at their dilemma because each of them in their own particular way treated him badly at the airport. He climbs to a ridge to find his bearings. He has the knowledge and experience to survive in this frozen land. Fully equipped, he has no qualms about walking out on his own.
Leif notices dark and ominous clouds heading toward him. There was a storm coming. He realizes that their will be no rescue for those in the plane, no hope for them, they will not survive the storm and will never be found once fresh snow covers the plane. He has no choice but to return and help them.
Battling his own personal demons, he interacts with the surviving passengers and as he does, we go back and learn of his life, learn of his reason for being what he was, a young man with no feelings.
His anger, his contempt for his fellow passengers, who each in their own way caused him some angst is gradually eroded away in the confines of the crashed plane as they are all forced to confront their own shortcomings and differences. Some of them swallow their pride and apologise, some find it hard to face him, to acknowledge that without him they will perish.
Graeme Bourke
In 1985 Graeme took up fly fishing in Tasmania and during this journey he kept a diary which was used to produce his first non-fiction book "Come Fly Fish With Me," which has now been published as an ebook. This book received wide acclaim from the fly fishing fraternity. He then completed a correspondence course on writing and began writing articles for sporting and travel magazines. In 2008 he published his second book on fishing "If Only The World Would Go Fishing." This book is no longer available having been sold out. His main ambition was to write fiction, so in 2010 he published "Hawkins' Grove" which has also been converted to an ebook. "Come fly fish with Me" and "Hawkin's Grove" are available in hard copy from "Window on the World" bookshop in Ulverstone, Tasmania. Mountain Pride, The Ghost Ship,The Gates of Hell and The House of Dreams are only available as ebooks. In June of 2014 Graeme uploaded the first book in his trilogy "The Orphan and the Shadow Walker: The feedback has been very positive. Sales from the second and third book have been encouraging. "An Ancient Warrior" is his most recent fiction novel. Graeme writes book reviews for a local newsletter and from the these he has compiled the best of these reviews so If you are looking for a book to read he guarantees you will find something here. He has just published a new book called "A Fortunate Destiny," a love story set in the early seventies around the trauma of the Vietnam War. "Tears in Thailand" has now been published. This is a true story telling of Graeme's journey in Thailand, his experiences and emotions as he enjoys the land of smiles. Read his excerpt on the blog, of his separation from his partner in Thailand because of the Corona virus. Copies also available at Window on the World book store in Ulverstone, Tasmania. Critics have praised his work and even compared it to be the equal to anything that is out there.
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