When fifteen-year-old Will is rejected by battleschool, he becomes the reluctant apprentice to the mysterious Ranger Halt, and winds up protecting the kingdom from danger.

Mapping Men and Empire takes the reader on a new journey, to a space where the colonisers are not having it all their own way.

This is a reprint edition of Becke's first collection of Pacific Island stories.

After Ranger's apprentice Will battles Temujai warriors to rescue Evanlyn, Will's kingdom of Skandia joins forces with rival kingdom Araluen to defeat a common enemy.

Will is forced to overcome his fear of Wargals, the foot soldiers of rebel warlord Morgarath, as Araluen's army prepares to battle Morgarath's forces.

Will took an oath when he joined the Ranger Corps.

Will is at the annual Ranger Gathering but Halt is investigating mysterious happenings in the west.