Tarka the Otter

Henry Williamson, Jeremy Gavron

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Penguin Classics
15 June 2009

Children's & Educational; Animal stories (Children's&YA)

Series: Penguin Modern Classics

For the first time in Penguin Modern Classics

In the wild there is no safety. The otter cub Tarka grows up with his mother and sisters, learning to swim, catch fish - and to fear the cry of the hunter and the flash of the metal trap. Soon he must fend for himself, travelling through rivers, woods, moors, ponds and out to sea, sometimes with the female otters White-tip and Greymuzzle, always on the run. Eventually, chased by a pack of hounds, he meets his nemesis, the fearsome dog Deadlock, and must fight for his life.

By: Henry Williamson
Introduction by: Jeremy Gavron
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 158g
ISBN: 9780141190358
ISBN 10: 0141190353
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 15 June 2009
Recommended Age: From 7 to 9 years
Audience: Children/juvenile , 7-9 years , Children / Juvenile
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Henry Williamson is regarded by many as Britain's finest nature writer. He was born in London in 1895 but his work is rooted in the north Devon countryside where he went to live after being deeply affected by his experiences in the First World War. He published some fifty books, a mix of country stories, most famously Tarka the Otter and Salar the Salmon, and autobiographical fiction, including the fifteen-volume novel cycle, A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight. He died in 1977. Jeremy Gavron is the author of five books, including The Last Elephant: An African Quest, and three novels, Moon, The Book of Israel, which won the Encore Award, and An Acre of Barren Ground.