monuments of grass Series

Boundless McLennan, a young Scottish printer, is sentenced to indentured servitude in the American colonies. Upon landing in the New World, he escapes and learns of a marvellous beast inhabiting the far western plains. To avoid recapture he assumes a new identity and secures employment on a shallop that travels up and down the Patapsco River fer

Monuments of Grass: The saga of America from colony to empire, from slavery to Black Lives Matter. "The historical events depicted in the narrative are underpinned by a brooding awareness of mortality and the vanishingly brief intersection of the human story with the eons of eternity." Lost and alone on the

In the seven decades following the 1783 Treaty of Paris the United States doubled and tripled in size to span the entire continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. By the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861 the United States had g

A badly-wounded stranger awakens from a fever to find himself in a cabin being attended to by a mysterious Indian woman. He has no memory of who he is, or how he came to be there. He learns that he is in New France, Quebec and that he was shot in a hunting accident while wandering the nearby woods. Unable to recall his own name he adopts the nam

Finn Wheeler, a journalist from New France, Quebec, is assigned to cover the US presidential bid of Senator Joseph Anderton, a charismatic Black politician. Motivated by the discovery of a family heirloom, he decides to combine the assignment with an investigation into the origins of the celebrated stone buffalo monument in North Dakota. The kil