Böcker av Robert Frederick Jackson

In 1907 half Navajo Texas ranch woman and war widow, Kathleen Jefferson Rodriguez, follows family members to the Philippines, where she becomes the one who finds the most: danger, adventure, love, God, and a future.

From the author of the historical series SUNNY OF THE OLD SOUTHWEST, telling of a courageous and adventurous marriage between a Navajo woman and a white American adventurer from Virginia . . . SAILING TO WINDWARD, a small enjoyable novella takes us to the beautiful and sometimes dangerous Philippine Islands just one year before the invasive American political involvement there in 1898. __ This is the story of the troubled and dangerous lives of two Filipino sisters, typically petite Cebuano Visayans from the central islands, who might be forever lost to their family and the world . . . and two men who may care enough to help, one Filipino and one Irish American. __ Sheltered, entitled, provincial, twenty-three year old Rosario Lopez flees home and family on the island of Cebu to avoid her selfish stepfather's demands: marry his friend, an older man who is a sexual pervert, or be sent to a convent. Now, as she tries to secure passage on a trading schooner that roams from mainland Southeast Asia to scattered Polynesia, her sister, Teresa, a year older and equally charming, has disappeared months earlier, perhaps for fear of being forced to take Rosario's place in the marriage. No one really knows why she's gone or where she is. __ The author is married to a charming and accomplished Visayan woman, and they have lived and traveled where much of this story takes place. __ 1. Moral, 2. Christian main characters, 3. Some Catholicism, 4. Some adult themes and content, 5. Realistic violence and risks, 6. No gratuitous sex and violence.

A tough American Navy Lieutenant recruits a young nurse with a courageous past to help him create a sanctuary for civilians from an invading enemy in the highlands of Negros Island in the Philippines. With a handful of Marines, Sailors, soldiers, and civilians, they face their worst fears and must dig deep within themselves, especially when the enemy discovers them and seeks to destroy them.

This book follows the novel KATHLEEN, which is the origins story of the early 20th. Century adventuress Sunny Kathleen Allison, the former Sunny Kathleen Jefferson. This novel, JAGUARUNDI, reveals the source of her nickname and tells of her career, with her husband, from 1909 through the First World War period. Sunny Kathleen, widowed, talented, skilled, wealthy, of Navajo and white frontier roots, and stunningly pretty, found love again in the Philippines in 1908. She discovered herself as well.. discovered the woman she, her parents, and God created. Now Mrs. Kathleen Allison and her husband, the former Capt. George Allison, U.S. Army, willingly face some of the dangerous moments of the Early 20th. Century, because they want to use what they have been blessed with, ability, wealth, and guts, to futher educate themselves and serve others.