I started with Bendigo Shafter. And not just because it was first alphabetically of the collection, but because I had been thinking of it before receiving the books.
I bought my first copy of it when I was 17 or 18, when it first came out in paperback, and have read it dozens of times. Maybe because I was the same age as Ben as the story began, but it made an impression on me, and in how I've grown up since then.
I have mixed feelings about divesting myself of my old books; I am sentimental, it seems. My son Logan will get most of them, in a few months.
I gave him Westward the Tide to read on the plane, since two of his names are from one of it's characters.
Hopefully he'll appreciate it.



Falcon