Harry Milvaine; Or, The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy
1890
Harry Milvaine; Or, The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy
1890
In the wind-scoured hills and misty glens of Scotland, a boy named Harry Milvaine runs wild with his loyal dog Eily at his heels. He is a wayward spirit, dreamy and mischievous, building bubble fleets in water troughs whileimagining himself a king of distant shores. When rain hammers the roof of his home, he vanishes into the forest, and there, among ancient trees and whispered secrets, he begins to discover who he might become. Gordon Stables captures something vanishing and precious about childhood: that liminal space where imagination bleeds into adventure, where a boy and his dog can vanish for hours and return with stories no one would believe. The novel wanders from riverside idylls to hints of darker waters, smuggler coves and distant seas where ships bearing strange cargo slip between ports. Harry's waywardness is not disobedience but a hunger for something just beyond the next hill, the next horizon. For readers who remember the feeling of freedom that came with childhood summers and unexplored paths, this is a ticket back to that vanished country.
