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A Tale of
Three Journeys
by A. Richard Eskew
Released in January 2012
Three characters, from St. Louis, Chicago, and Scotland, are controlled by what the fates dictate. The time is set in the late 1800s, but it could just as easily be today.
Thomas Meeker, born in poverty and cared for by loving souls, confronts despair and moves on, ever westward to a destiny which challenges his strength as well as his soul.
Frederick Wagner is born into a life of mean and hate. He is nurtured in a world without a conscience, where rewards are earned through deception, pain and cruelty.
Seamus McGregor’s world begins on the fringes of aristocracy and slides ever-perceptively to the realities of life. Given to do the right thing, his life ends tragically, alone and without merit.
A Tale of Three Journeys looks into the souls of each character and places you in their shoes. Any one of the Three Journeys could have been your journey.
The Tale culminates in Dawson City in the Yukon, where the three characters come together for one brief, fatal encounter.
The Tale asks the question: Which of these three, completing their pilgrimage, is the strong, the brave, the sane?
A Tale of Three Journeys is available in softcover at
Amazon.com.
The Tale is 199 pages.
About the Author: A. Richard Eskew
Poet and novelist, A. R. “Rich” Eskew
was born in Texas, was raised in Missouri, and re-settled in Alaska. He is a world
traveler and lived and worked overseas for fifteen years.
“At age eight, I was imprisoned by the works of Jack London and Robert Service,
the two men who eventually carried me along to the Yukon and Alaska and gave
me a start to the real adventures of life!”
A
real modern-day adventurer, Rich has survived in the Alaskan wilderness, trod
the Silk Road in the footsteps of Marco Polo, and travelled from the heights of the
Himalayas to the sands of Rub’ al Khali on the Arabian Peninsula. He has even taken
a page from Hemmingway’s The Sun Also Rises and “run with the bulls” in Pamplona, Spain.
 “If
possible, I want to live what I read,” Rich wrote in “A Whisker’s Luck,” his
first piece of poetry at the tender age of ten. His most recent endeavours include:
Walk with Me, an anthology of poems on the Civil War; Memories from the Muck, a
three-volume collection of poems celebrating the Gold Rush Era in Alaska and the Yukon;
and The Devil’s Riddle, his first venture into the genre of cowboy poetry.
Rich lives by the adage, “If you put your head in a bucket, you ain’t gonna know nothing but bucket.
Rich and his wife, Gloria, currently reside in Springfield, Missouri. Each year they travel on the Alcan
Highway back to their roots in Fairbanks, Alaska, to spend time with their son and grandchildren as well as renew
life long friendships.
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