At the Back of the North Wind (Wordsworth Children's Classics)
by MacDonald, George
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- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- F/F/ND
- ISBN 10
- 1853261491
- ISBN 13
- 9781853261497
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About This Item
SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1994* Publisher: Wordsworth Classics.* Binding and cover condition: Soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. Very slight shelf wear to corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems un-read. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations or inscriptions, no visible faults. No tanning. AS NEW* Illustrations: B/w line drawings & prints throughout.* Pages: 391 pp. text. viii pp. Blank and one advertisement at rear.* Product Description:- This novel tells of Diamond, the motherless son of a poor coachman, who is awakened one night by the rushing of the North Wind. When a voice calls to him from outside, the wind is revealed as a beautiful woman, who takes Diamond in her arms and introduces him to many adventures.* This is a FINE copy with absolutely minimal shelf wear.*
Synopsis
It started with fireballs raining down from the sky and crashing into the oceans' deeps. Then ships began sinking mysteriously and later 'sea tanks' emerged from the deeps to claim people . . .For journalists Mike and Phyllis Watson, what at first appears to be a curiosity becomes a global calamity. Helpless, they watch as humanity struggles to survive now that water – one of the compounds upon which life depends – is turned against them. Finally, sea levels begin their inexorable rise . . .The Kraken Wakes is a brilliant novel of how humankind responds to the threat of its own extinction and, ultimately, asks what we are prepared to do in order to survive.
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- Cocksparrow Books
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- Title
- At the Back of the North Wind (Wordsworth Children's Classics)
- Author
- MacDonald, George
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - F/F/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1853261491
- ISBN 13
- 9781853261497
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions Ltd
- Place of Publication
- Ware UK 400
- This edition first published
- 1994
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