ISBN: 0140300600
Godina izdanja: 1972
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Henry Williamson - Tarka the Otter: His Joyful Water-Life and Death in the Two Rivers
Puffin Books [Penguin], 1972
236 str.
meki povez
stanje: dobro, potpis na prvoj strani.
C.F. Tunnicliffe (illustrator)

Tarka the otter pursues an active life, sometimes playful and sometimes dangerous, in the Devonshire countryside.

Tarka the Otter: His Joyful Water-Life and Death in the Country of the Two Rivers is a highly influential novel by Henry Williamson, first published in 1927 by G.P. Putnam`s Sons with an introduction by the Hon. Sir John Fortescue. It won the Hawthornden Prize in 1928 and remains Willamson`s best-known and most popular work, having never been out of print since first publication.

As its title suggests, the novel describes the life of an otter, along with a detailed observation of its habitat in the country of the River Taw and River Torridge in North Devon (the `Two Rivers`); the name `Tarka` is said by Williamson to mean `Wandering as Water` (p. 10). Though often now characterised as a children`s book, Tarka has influenced literary figures as diverse as Ted Hughes and Rachel Carson.


Fiction, Animals, Classics, Childrens