The Freedom Of Ariki
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Author: Rollo Arnold
Binding: Hardback
Published: Angus and Robertson , 1967
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Aging or marking
Markings: No markings
TO ARIKI, the Fletcher sheep property situated on one of the picturesque sounds of New Zealand's South Island, come Penny and John Brown, to spend an unusual summer holiday. Their Fletcher cousins— Kathryn, Meg, John and Cedric-are oppressed by a "dark cloud of woe", in the shape of their father's housekeeper and her husband, whom he has taken on as a partner-now bitterly regretting his action. The children band together, determined to free Ariki of its oppression and make the farm the happy, carefree home it was before. Gradually as the summer slips by, with days spent messing about in boats and camping beside the Sound, they find themselves drawn into a mystery concerning Hercules Smith, a neighbouring farmer —and a still greater puzzle surrounding the car accident the Fletchers were involved in two years ago. How these two mysteries are solved, and how their solution succeeds in lifting the "dark cloud of woe" from Ariki is entertainingly described by Rollo Arnold, a New Zealand author with a flair for an ingenious and unpredictable story.
Author: Rollo Arnold
Binding: Hardback
Published: Angus and Robertson , 1967
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Aging or marking
Markings: No markings
TO ARIKI, the Fletcher sheep property situated on one of the picturesque sounds of New Zealand's South Island, come Penny and John Brown, to spend an unusual summer holiday. Their Fletcher cousins— Kathryn, Meg, John and Cedric-are oppressed by a "dark cloud of woe", in the shape of their father's housekeeper and her husband, whom he has taken on as a partner-now bitterly regretting his action. The children band together, determined to free Ariki of its oppression and make the farm the happy, carefree home it was before. Gradually as the summer slips by, with days spent messing about in boats and camping beside the Sound, they find themselves drawn into a mystery concerning Hercules Smith, a neighbouring farmer —and a still greater puzzle surrounding the car accident the Fletchers were involved in two years ago. How these two mysteries are solved, and how their solution succeeds in lifting the "dark cloud of woe" from Ariki is entertainingly described by Rollo Arnold, a New Zealand author with a flair for an ingenious and unpredictable story.