Finding Billy Battles: An Account of Peril, Transgression and Redemption

by Ronald Yates

Overview

A link to the past no one could ever imagine.

When a great-grandson inherits two aging trunks and a stack of meticulously detailed journals penned by his great-grandfather, he sets out to fulfill his great-grandfather's last request: to tell the story of an incredible life replete with adventure, violence, and tragedy. The great-grandfather's name is Billy Battles--a man often trapped and overwhelmed by circumstances beyond his control.

For much of his 100-year-long life, Billy is a man missing and largely unknown to his descendants. His great-grandson is about to change that. As he works his way through the aging journals and the other possessions he finds in the battered trunks he uncovers the truth about his mysterious great-grandfather--a man whose deeds and misdeeds propelled him on an extraordinary and perilous journey from the untamed American West to the inscrutable Far East, Latin America, and Europe.

But most of all he learns that in finding Billy Battles he has also found a long lost and astonishing link to the past.

 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781493130320
Publisher:	PublishDrive
Publication date:	03/03/2019
Series:	Book 1 of a Trilogy , #1
Sold by:	PUBLISHDRIVE KFT
Format:	eBook
Pages:	299
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Ronald E. Yates is a former award-winning foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and dean emeritus of the College of Media at the University of Illinois, where he was also a professor of journalism. He is the author of The Kikkoman Chronicles: A Global Company with a Japanese Soul, published by McGraw-Hill. His books also include Aboard the Tokyo Express: A Foreign Correspondent’s Journey Through Japan, a collection of columns translated into Japanese, as well as two journalism textbooks: The Journalist’s Handbook and International Reporting and Foreign Correspondents. Yates lived and worked as a foreign correspondent in Japan, Southeast Asia, and Latin America, where he covered several major stories including the fall of South Vietnam and Cambodia in 1975, the 1989 Tiananmen Square tragedy in Beijing, and revolutions in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala. He is a graduate of the William Allen White School of Journalism at the University of Kansas.