Tarka the Otter (Puffin Modern Classics)

Author(s): Henry Williamson

Children & Young Adult

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.

General Information

  • : 9780141354958
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : Puffin
  • : 0.32
  • : 01 June 2014
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 01 October 2014
  • : books

Other Specifications

  • : Henry Williamson
  • : Paperback
  • : NE
  • : Annabel Large
  • : English
  • : 352
  • : illustrations, maps

More About The Product

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.