Posted by Nandakumar Chandran on October 10, 2000 at 04:29:40:

With regard to Tatton Chantry being the stowaway in TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS, it must also be noted that in another instance in the same book the legend of Tatton Chantry as returning back to Ireland from the New World with wealth and wife, is also explicitly mentioned!!! And in "Fair blows the Wind", Fergus McAskill tells Tatton that he knows who Tatton really is and that there is some kind of a connection between his family and Tatton's mother. But he doesn't elaborate any further. A lot of ambiguity which doesn't amount to much since Fergus disappears at sea and is never seen again. L'amour adopts the same ambiguous line with the original "Tatton Chantry" who washes ashore in Ireland and is discovered by our hero and his father. In the book a couple of people recognize the name but nothing further comes of it. Wonder if L'amour had an original subplot which he forgot as he went along! Anyway, did they shoot a movie on this book?

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