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978-0-89587-292-0
0-89587-292-7
$22.95 hardcover
6 X 9
288 pages
Also by BJ Mountford:
Sea-Born Women
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It’s time for the roundup
of the wild ponies that reside on Shackleford Banks, a barrier island at
the southern end of North Carolina’s Outer Banks. Volunteers have
gathered to help the Park Service give the ponies their regular checkup.
But ponies start disappearing, and carcasses of endangered sea turtles
wash up on shore. It’s not long before volunteers start dying, too.
Roberta "Bert” Lenehan,
a Park Service volunteer, finds herself right in the middle of these
strange happenings. While solving the mystery, Bert gets assistance from
an unexpected source―Triton, the powerful stallion who leads the
banker ponies. While following the exploits of Bert and Triton, the
reader also learns the history of these horses. From Nejmah, the Moorish
war horse of 711 a.d., to the legendary Finn-Gall of 15th-century
Ireland, the herd’s intricate history unfolds, embracing abandoned
outcasts of Spanish explorers and English colonists, veterans of the
Revolutionary and Civil wars, and, finally, the survivors of a
devastating hurricane in 1899 that returned the island to its rightful
heirs.
about the author
BJ Mountford has worked as a National
Park Service volunteer on North Carolina’s Outer Banks as well as at
parks in Georgia, Hawaii, and Idaho. She lives in Emerald Isle, North
Carolina.
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