Tarka The Otter (Puffin Modern Classics)

Author: Henry Williamson

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  • : 18.00 NZD
  • : 9780141354958
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : Puffin
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  • : 0.32
  • : June 2014
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 25mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 17.99
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  • : Henry Williamson
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  • : Paperback
  • : NE
  • : Annabel Large
  • : English
  • : 823.912
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  • : 352
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Barcode 9780141354958
9780141354958

Local Description

PUBLICATION NOVEMBER 2014

Description

This is the tale of Tarka the Otter's growth to adulthood in the country of the Two Rivers. It is also the story of his life in the wild and how he is hunted by his enemy, the great hound Deadlock.

Author description

Henry William Williamson was born in 1895 in Brockley, south-east London. The then semi-rural location provided easy access to the countryside, and he developed a deep love of nature throughout his childhood. He became a prolific author known for his natural and social history novels. He won the Hawthornden Prize for literatrure in 1928 for Tarka the Otter.