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Outlander: Book 3

Voyager (1994) (edit title/settings)

by Diana Gabaldon (Author) (edit contributors)

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In this rich, vibrant tale, Diana Gabaldon continues the story of Claire Randall and Jamie Fraser that began with the now-classic novel, Outlander, and continued in Dragonfly in Amber. Sweeping us from the battlefields of eighteenth-century Scotland to the exotic West Indies, Diana Gabaldon... read more

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Voyager, book three in the best-selling Outlander series, was written by Diana Gabaldon.

The storyline centers on a time-travelling 20th-century nurse (Claire Randall Fraser) and her 18th-century Scottish husband (Jamie Fraser), and are located in Scotland, France, and America.

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Voyager, book three in the best-selling Outlander series, was written by Diana Gabaldon.

The storyline centers on a time-travelling 20th-century nurse (Claire Randall Fraser) and her 18th-century Scottish husband (Jamie Fraser), and are located in Scotland, France, and America.

The heroine of the bestselling Outlander, Claire, returns in Voyager as a mother to Brianna Ellen Randall and living in Boston in the year 1965. The preceding novel, Dragonfly in Amber, ended with Claire and Brianna coming to grips with the truth of Brianna's real father Jamie Fraser and Claire's travel through time. In Voyager Claire and Brianna trace Jamie's life since the battle of Culloden during the Scottish Rising. Discovering Jamie survived the massacre that heralded the destruction of many clans in Scotland sends Claire back to the stone circle that first hurtled her through time - twenty years before.

Voyager is a poignant tale of two lovers finding each other again, embarking on a whirlwind journey filled with danger on the high seas and the constant peril of Jamie's past catching up with them. As the third in what is now a seven-book series (according to the author there will be a Book 8, possibly a Book 9) of Claire Randall Fraser and her Highlander husband Jamie, the story is an integral step in a bestselling and surprisingly rich tale spanning the time from the Scottish Rising of 1745, to the American Revolution.

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  • “Would the man not just hurry along? Being shot was one thing, but listening to your friends being executed within hearing was another, and not calculated to settle the nerves.”
    Jamie Fraser
  • “Black Jack Randall! And a bloody, filthy, nasty pervert he was, too!”
    Claire Beauchamp
  • “Did you come now because you wanted to, or because you felt you must?”
    Jamie Fraser
  • “God gave that as a consolation to man. If ye've ever the privilege of seeing a woman in her skin, gentlemen, ye'll observe that the hair there grows in the shape of an arrow - pointing the way, ye ken, so as a poor ignorant man can find his way safe home.”
    Jamie Fraser
  • “The new captain of the Artemis was standing in the middle of his cabin, eyes closed and completely naked, blissfully scratching his testicles.”
    Claire Beauchamp
  • “Faith is as powerful a force as science - but far more dangerous.”
    Lawrence Stern
  • “"He gave you to me," she said, so low I could hardly hear her. "Now I have to give you back to him, Mama."”
    Brianna Randall
  • “"I am a coward, damn you! I couldna tell ye, for fear ye would leave me, and unmanly thing that I am, I thought I couldna bear that!"”
    Jamie Fraser
  • “"Oh, Lord!" This must be what it's like to make love in Hell," he whispered. "With a burning she-devil."”
    Jamie Fraser
  • “"Only you," he said, so softly I could barely hear him. "To worship ye with my body, give ye all the service of my hands. To give ye my name, and all my heart and soul with it. Only you. Because ye will not let me lie--and yet ye love me."”
    Jamie Fraser
  • “"Am I a man? To want you so badly that nothing else matters? To see you, and know I would sacrifice honor or family or life itself to lie wi' you, even though ye'd left me?"”
    Jamie Fraser
  • “"Then kiss me, Claire," he whispered, "And know that you are more to me than life, and I have no regret."”
    Jamie Fraser
  • “"I'm a man, Sassenach," he said, very softly. "If I thought there was a choice ... then I maybe couldna do it. Ye dinna need to be so brave about things if ye ken ye canna help it, aye?" He looked at me then, with a faint smile. "Like a woman in childbirth, aye? Ye must do it, and it makes no difference if you're afraid - ye'll do it. It's only when ye can say no that it takes courage."”
    Jamie Fraser
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  • “Well, I say it is the place of science only to observe,” he said. “To seek cause where it may be found, but to realize that there are many things in the world for which no cause shall be found; not because it does not exist, but because we know too little to find it. It is not the place of science to insist on explanation—but only to observe, in hopes that the explanation will manifest itself.”
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  • There are things ye maybe canna tell me, he had said. I willna ask ye, or force ye. But when ye do tell me something, let it be the truth. There is nothing between us now but respect, and respect has room for secrets, I think—but not for lies.
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  • know why the Jews and Muslims have nine hundred names for God; one small word is not enough for love.
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  • “Only you,” he said, so softly I could barely hear him. “To worship ye with my body, give ye all the service of my hands. To give ye my name, and all my heart and soul with it. Only you. Because ye will not let me lie—and yet ye love me.”
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  • “I have noticed,” she said slowly, “that time does not really exist for mothers, with regard to their children. It does not matter greatly how old the child is—in the blink of an eye, the mother can see the child again as it was when it was born, when it learned to walk, as it was at any age—at any time, even when the child is fully grown and a parent itself.”
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  • it’s no use to shout at a stubborn man, or beat him, either; it only makes him more set on having his way.”
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  • “I think perhaps the greatest burden lies in caring for those we cannot help.” “Not in having no one for whom to care?” Fraser paused before answering; he might have been weighing the position of the pieces on the table. “That is emptiness,” he said at last, softly. “But no great burden.”
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  • “It was not Monsieur Arouet, but a colleague of his—a lady novelist—who remarked to me once that writing novels was a cannibal’s art, in which one often mixed small portions of one’s friends and one’s enemies together, seasoned them with imagination, and allowed the whole to stew together into a savory concoction.”
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First Sentence edit see section history

April 16, 1746 he was dead.

Table of Contents edit see section history

Prologue

Part One
Chapter 1 - The Corbies' Feast
Chapter 2 - The Hunt Begins
Chapter 3 - Frank and Full Disclosure

Part Two
Chapter 4 - The Dunbonnet
Chapter 5 - To Us a Child is Given
Chapter 6 - Being Now Justified By His Blood

Part Three
Chapter 7 - A Faith in Documents
Chapter 8 - Honor's Prisoner
Chapter 9 - The Wanderer
Chapter 10 - White Witch's Curse
Chapter 11 - The Torremolinos Gambit
Chapter 12 - Sacrifice
Chapter 13 - Midgame

Part Four
Chapter 14 - Geneva
Chapter 15 - By Misadventure
Chapter 16 - Willie
Chapter 17 - Monsters Rising

Part Five
Chapter 18 - Roots
Chapter 19 - To Lay a Ghost
Chapter 20 - Diagnosis
Chapter 21 - Q.E.D.
Chapter 22 - All Hallows' Eve
Chapter 23 - Craigh Na Dun

Part Six
Chapter 24 - A. Malcolm, Printer
Chapter 25 - House of Joy
Chapter 26 - Whore's Brunch
Chapter 27 - Up in Flames
Chapter 28 - Virtue's Garden
Chapter 29 - Culloden's Last Victim
Chapter 30 - Rendezvous
Chapter 31 - Smugglers' Moon

Part Seven
Chapter 32 - The Prodigal's Return
Chapter 33 - Buried Treasure
Chapter 34 - Daddy
Chapter 35 - Flight From Eden
Chapter 36 - Practical and Applied Witchcraft
Chapter 37 - What's in a Name
Chapter 38 - I Meet a Lawyer
Chapter 39 - Lost, and by the Wind Grieved

Part Eight
Chapter 40 - I Shall Go Down to Sea
Chapter 41 - We Set Sail
Chapter 42 - The Man in the Moon
Chapter 43 - Phantom Limbs
Chapter 44 - Forces of Nature
Chapter 45 - Mr. Willoughby's Tale
Chapter 46 - We Meet a Porpoise
Chapter 47 - Plague Ship
Chapter 48 - Moment of Grace
Chapter 49 - Land Ho!
Chapter 50 - I Meet a Priest
Chapter 51 - In Which Jaimie Smells a Rat
Chapter 52 - A Wedding Takes Place

Part Nine
Chapter 53 - Bat Guano
Chapter 54 - "The Impetuous Pirate"
Chapter 55 - Ishmael
Chapter 56 - Turtle Soup
Chapter 57 - Promised Land
Chapter 58 - Masque of the Red Death
Chapter 59 - In Which Much is Revealed
Chapter 60 - The Scent of Gemstones
Chapter 61 - The Crocodile's Fire
Chapter 62 - Abandawe
Chapter 63 - Out of the Depths

Glossary edit see section history

  • sassenach: an English inhabitant of the British Isles: used, often disparagingly, by the Gaelic inhabitants.Origin: 1765–75; < ScotGael Sasunnach, Ir Sasanach English, English person, Protestant, MIr Saxanach, deriv. of Saxain, Sagsuin, Sachsain the Saxons, England ≪ LL Saxonēs; see Saxon

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 3 of 12 in Outlander. (standard series)

Preceded by Dragonfly in Amber, and followed by Drums of Autumn.

This is book 79 of 100 in AAR Top 100 Romances 2007. (authoritative list)
This is book 39 of 109 in Top 109 Romance Novels (TheRomanceReader.com). (community list)
This is book 56 of 105 in AAR Top 100 Romances 1998. (authoritative list)
This is book 43 of 100 in AAR Top 100 Romances 2000. (authoritative list)
This is book 93 of 100 in AAR Top 100 Romances 2010. (authoritative list)

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Diana Gabaldon (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1994
ISBN: 0385302320
Page Count: 880

Classification edit see section history

  • Library of Congress: PS3557.A22 V69 2001
  • Dewey: 813.54

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Reading Level: Adults

Sexual content; some violence

More Books Like This edit see section history

   
  • Everything in Its Time
  • Wild Highland Rose
  • The Promise

Books with Additional Background Information edit see section history

   
  • The Outlandish Companion
  • Outlander
  • Dragonfly in Amber

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