Voyager - Diana Gabaldon [0]
DIANA GABALDON and her novels
“VOYAGER IS, FRANKLY, AN AMAZING READ. An unusual mix of romance, suspense and history.…If you can put this huge tome down before dawn, you’re made of sterner stuff than I am.”
—Arizona Tribune
“ROUSING…AUDACIOUS…EXCITING…Gabaldon masterfully weaves…flashbacks…crossing time periods with abandon but never losing track of the story.”
—Locus
“INTRICATELY DETAILED…RICH IMAGINATION…THIS COULD BE THE START OF A SERIES TO RIVAL JAMES CLAVELL’S ORIENTAL SAGAS.”
—The Oak Ridger (Tennessee)
“SUPERIOR QUALITY…A TALENT THAT GOES BEYOND SUPERB, BEYOND INTELLIGENT STORYTELLING.”
—The Grand Prairie News (Texas)
“UNCONVENTIONAL…MEMORABLE STORYTELLING”
—The Seattle Times
“ELABORATE AND COMPELLING…GABALDON [IS] A NATURAL STORYTELLER. VOYAGER IS…A LAVISH AND ENTERTAINING MIX OF HISTORY AND FANTASY.”
—Blade-Citizen (San Diego, California)
“They are middle-aged lovers now, but their passion is just as strong (and Gabaldon had Voyager in her sights long before there was Robert James Waller). The language is right, the feeling is right, and if [Gabaldon] wants to write about Jamie and Claire when they’re 50-something, I’d be happy to spend another 870 pages with them.”
—Detroit Free Press
“GABALDON MAKES…HER STORY SING FOR ANYONE! [VOYAGER] is an involved tale that smoothly blends several popular genres. After reading the final chapter, you’ll wish there were more.”
—The Cleveland Plain Dealer
Books by Diana Gabaldon
Outlander
Dragonfly in Amber
Voyager
Drums of Autumn
The Outlandish Companion
Copyright © 1994 by Diana Gabaldon
Anchor Canada paperback edition 2002
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National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication Data
Gabaldon, Diana
Voyager
eISBN: 978-0-385-67468-3
I. Title.
PS3557.A22V69 2002 813′.54 C2002-900139-0
Published in Canada by
Anchor Canada, a division of
Random House of Canada Limited
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Contents
Cover
Title page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Praise for Voyager
Ackowledgments
Prologue
Part One
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Part Two
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Part Three
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Part Four
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Part Five
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Part Six
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Part Seven
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Part Eight
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Part Nine
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Chapter 63
Books by Diana Gabaldon
Excerpt from Drums of Autumn
To my children,
Laura Juliet,
Samuel Gordon,
and Jennifer Rose,
Who gave me the heart, the blood, and the bones of this book.
Acknowledgments
The author’s deepest thanks to:
Jackie Cantor, as always, for being the rare and marvelous sort of editor who thinks it’s all right if a book is long as long as it’s good; my husband, Doug Watkins, for his literary eye, his marginal notes (e.g., “nipples again?”), and the jokes he insists I steal from him to give to Jamie Fraser; my elder daughter, Laura, who says, “If you come talk to my class about writing again, just talk about books and don’t tell them about whale penises, okay?”;