Tarka the otter : his joyful water-life and death in the country of the two rivers
Williamson, Henry1965
Books, Manuscripts
Find it!
This famous and much-loved book was first published in 1927, when it won the Hawthornden Prize and was publicly praised by the literary giants who now seem almost legendary - Arnold Bennett, John Galsworthy and Thomas Hardy. T. E. Lawrence admired it greatly. It first appeared without illustrations, but in 1932 C. F. Tunnicliffe, ARA, working with the author, made drawings of the North Devon places and scenes describes in the text, and the two have become almost inseparable. Since then the book has been reprinted countless times ; it was among he first titles to appear in a paperback edition when Sir Allen Lane began his Penguin list in the 1930's ; it was been translated into many foreign languages ; it has appeared in an edition for school use and, more recently, in a Nonesuch edition for connoisseurs of book production. In short, Tarka has become a classic, and one that appeals as much to children as to adults. As a reviewer wrote in The Times Literary Supplement, 'It is a book of transcending beauty and truth, and those children, and adults, who prove worthy of it, may find it a major experience of their reading lives.' This edition includes the map and author's Apologia (explaining some of the dialect words) from the 1964 Nonesuch edition.
Main title:
Tarka the otter : his joyful water-life and death in the country of the two rivers / Henry Williamson, with an introduction by the Hon. Sir John Fortescue, K.C.V.O., illustrated by C. F. Tunnicliffe, R.A.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Bodley Head, 1965.
Collation:
240 pages ; illustrations (black and white), map (black and white) ; 20 cm.
Notes:
First published 1927.
ISBN:
03701096439780370109640
Local class:
fJ599.74447
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
287311