Out of This Nettle

First edition of this classic book of historical fiction. Front Cover text: He was both tortured slave and lusty master in the decadent colonial islands. Back Cover text: THE LOWRIE PRIDE COULD NOT BE BROKEN! Fleeing Scotland at 16 with a price on his head, through 10 brutal years as a slave in the west Indies, Colin Lowrie's pride was all that sustained him. Even his backbreaking struggles to become a man of property on a haunted, rundown plantation could not defeat him. For through it all, the women who loved him helped him survive. Each gave him something he couldn't forget...