The Henry Williamson Animal Saga: Tarka The Otter And Other Stories
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.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Few works of English nature writing have captured the raw, unsentimental beauty of the wild as powerfully as Henry Williamson's animal stories. At the heart of this collection is Tarka the Otter, a masterpiece that chronicles the life of a young otter navigating the rivers and moorlands of Devon — pursued by hounds, battered by seasons, and driven by the fierce, instinctive will to survive. Alongside it, this anthology gathers further tales from Williamson's remarkable animal saga, each one immersing the reader in a world seen entirely through the eyes of its creature inhabitants. Williamson writes with an almost documentary precision married to a lyrical intensity that places him firmly in the tradition of the great British naturalist-authors. His prose strips away sentimentality, presenting the natural world as a place of breathtaking beauty and merciless consequence, where every moment vibrates with life and death. Winner of the Hawthornden Prize in 1928, Tarka the Otter endures as one of the finest works of animal fiction ever written in the English language — and for those who have never encountered it, the first page is a point of no return.
Author: Henry Williamson
Format: Hardback
Genre: Natural history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Few works of English nature writing have captured the raw, unsentimental beauty of the wild as powerfully as Henry Williamson's animal stories. At the heart of this collection is Tarka the Otter, a masterpiece that chronicles the life of a young otter navigating the rivers and moorlands of Devon — pursued by hounds, battered by seasons, and driven by the fierce, instinctive will to survive. Alongside it, this anthology gathers further tales from Williamson's remarkable animal saga, each one immersing the reader in a world seen entirely through the eyes of its creature inhabitants. Williamson writes with an almost documentary precision married to a lyrical intensity that places him firmly in the tradition of the great British naturalist-authors. His prose strips away sentimentality, presenting the natural world as a place of breathtaking beauty and merciless consequence, where every moment vibrates with life and death. Winner of the Hawthornden Prize in 1928, Tarka the Otter endures as one of the finest works of animal fiction ever written in the English language — and for those who have never encountered it, the first page is a point of no return.