The remarkably prolific author Harold Bindloss was born and died in England, but he spent many of the intervening years working odd jobs in exotic locales around the world as a means of sating his unquenchable wanderlust. His novel Thurston of Orchard Valley introduces readers to the gruff, hardscrabble Geoffrey Thurston, who, like a long line of his forebears, works the land. When an unlikely romance blossoms, Thurston's routine existence is rent asunder.

Building bridges is a specialty for civil engineer Lieutenant Richard Brandon, and he is confident of his path. Aiming for the rank of Captain and eventual marriage to his socially-appropriate match, Helen Massie, Brandon seems to be well on his way. He has not planned, however, on the arrival of wanderer Clare Kenwardine and all she will mean to the changing course of his life. Army intrigue and stolen secrets set the stage for the tumultuous relationship between Brandon and Clare.

Can't get enough of rip-roaring tales from the classic era of action-adventure? Tear into Harold Bindloss' The Coast of Adventure for a stiff dose of everything that makes this genre so enticing: exotic locales, stormy love affairs, gorgeous landscapes, and lots of pulse-pounding excitement.

The Allinsons an old and respected business firm in England have undertaken to develop a Canadian mine. Andrew Allinson, the youngest member of the family is sent out to Canada as its representative. He knows little of the business affairs of the house, for, since his father's death, they have been largely controlled by his brother-in-law, but when he is once arrived on the scene, he learns quickly enough that there has been crookedness somewhere in the previous management. He learns that ...

In this vital story of pioneer grit conquering the wilderness, Harold Bindloss has excelled his previous novels of the Northwest. He tells of swift action, and alert men and women turning success into failure in the bracing atmosphere of the Great Northwest.

an account of the trials and disappointments of an indomitable young Englishman, who has left home because he is ambitious, because he hates the drudgery of a Lancashire cotton mill, and because he has lost his heart to a young woman who seems hopelessly beyond his reach; and has emigrated to the great, free, unbroken region of the Canadian Northwest. There is a breath of strong, clean fresh air blowing through the early chapters of this book, a suggestion of wholesome, honest toil, and un...

As good a book as Harold Bindloss ever wrote, the story of a forceful and resourceful young engineer who wins his bride by sheer grit and courage.

Delilah of the Snows by Harold BindlossThe tennis match was over, and Walter Ingleby stood swinging his racket impatiently beside an opening in the hazel hedge that overhung the lane. Wisps of hay were strewn about it, but already the nut bushes were sprinkled with the honeysuckle's flowers. Beyond the hedge, cornfields blotched with poppies, and cropped meadows, faded into the cold blueness of the east. Ingleby looked out upon the prospect with a slight hardening of his face, for h...

Canada, the scene of so many of this author's novels, furnishes only the starting point for this story. When he first has news of impending war Andrew Johnstone, whose career as a soldier was early cut short by an accident, returns to his home in Scotland hoping that there will be work there even for a man who cannot fight. His friend Whitney, an American who has been his partner on many a Canadian trail and waterway, goes with him. Johnstone also has a personal reason in going home. His y...

Yet an exciting adventure by English adventure novelist Harold Bindloss.

A light breeze scented with the smell of the firs was blowing down the inlet and the tiny ripples it chased across the water splashed musically against the bows of the canoe. They met her end-on sparkling in the warm sunset light gurgled about her sides and trailed away astern in two divergent lines as the paddles flashed and fell.

Though he lived much of his life in England, author Harold Bindloss never forgot the Canadian prairies where he spent some time as a farmer in his early adulthood. Weakened by disease later in life, Bindloss took up writing, and the vast majority of his westerns were set in the rolling plains of Canada. Winston of the Prairie is one of Bindloss' most acclaimed novels, and it's sure to please fans of classic westerns.