Mortal Engines

Reeve, Philip

ISBN 10: 0439993458 / ISBN 13: 9780439993456

Edité par Scholastic Children's Press, London, 2001

A propos de cet article

Near fine condition first edition/first printing. Contains full numberline. Unread and free of owner's marks. Light soiling top text block from dust accumulation. Dust jacket near fine with original seller's price sticker on back and rubbed edges. In protective archival sleeve.

N° de réf. du vendeur 2122

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Mortal Engines
• Éditeur: Scholastic Children's Press, London
• Date de parution: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0439993458
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780439993456
• Reliure: Hardcover/Hardback
• Édition: First Edition.
• Impression: 1st printing
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• État de la jaquette: Near Fine
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Fiction
  • Juvenile Fiction

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Synopsis

Tom and Hester have been thrown together, literally thrown out of a city that's left them stranded and starving in the middle of nowhere while it hares off after its prey. Hester is desperate for revenge, Tom is desperate to get back on board his beloved London. This is an adventure story set in a fantasy world where moving cities trawl the globe.

Présentation de l'éditeur

London is hunting

The great Traction City lumbers after a small town, eager to strip its prey of all assets and move on. Resources on the Great Hunting Ground that once was Europe are so limited that mobile cities must consume one another to survive, a practice known as Municipal Darwinism.

Tom, an apprentice in the Guild of Historians, saves his hero, Head Historian Thaddeus Valentine, from a murder attempt by the mysterious Hester Shaw -- only to find himself thrown from the city and stranded with Hester in the Out Country. As they struggle to follow the tracks of the city, the sinister plans of London's leaders begin to unfold ...