Escape to the Downs - Couverture rigide

Knight, Hester

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1902421213 ISBN 13 : 9781902421216

Editeur : Long Barn Books Ltd, 2007

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

It all began with the Shetland pony whose longing to see for himself what the Downs were really like was equalled only by his belief that all his life he had been missing something that the big horses enjoyed. The Pekinese was easily persuaded that she was missing a treat given to the other dogs, and so an expedition was planned. The Indian mynah bird joined them because he said he could fly ahead and spy out the lank; so did the guinea-pigs, after much shilly-shallying and Syringa the hen who thought somebody sensible ought to go. They borrowed the children's little cart and each once stocked it with suitable provisions before they set off at a spanking pace on a well-chosen morning when the people were not about.
The road to the Downs was far longer than they had supposed - and far more dangerous. Long before the weary little party had found its way home again they understood why they had never been taken there, and that what is a treat for long-legged animals is not a treat for all.

Biographie de l'auteur

Hester Knight was the mother of the race horse trainer Henrietta Knight and of Lady Vestey, and was born in 1920 in Lockinge, at the foot of the Berkshire Downs, near the Ridgeway, the setting of both this and her other story, The Donky Derby. She was very well-known locally and independent bookshops in the area should stock.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Long Barn Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1902421213
• ISBN 13: 9781902421216
• Reliure: Relié
• Illustrateur: Millais Raoul
• Nombre de pages: 104
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible