Isbn: 9780241019696 - to sunset and beyond (2 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Fair+. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. First British Edition. Library tape marks to boards and pastedown. Front endpaper missing. Internally in Good condition. Dustjacket is unclipped and protected by removeable library clear cover but is adhered to pastedown. Overall a very acceptable reading copy of this children' novel about a 19th century faming family set on Dartmoor. Ex-Library.…

Hardcover. Etat : Good. First edition. 160 pages. Dj chipped. Ex-library'On the skirts of the moor' or 'on the edge of the beyond' people said when t hey talked about Sunset Farm, and to young Peter Varden who lived at Sunset Farm the words held a special fascination. There was his home, so familiar, safe and hardworking, and only just beyond it the vast, treacherous tract of Dartmoor, s o bleak and threatening in winter or enveloped in one of its sudden and bewilder ing mists.Peter's own great singlehanded struggle with Dartmoor came when he was still a little boy. It was haymaking time, a boiling hot day 'with a temperatur e', as Peter's sister Beth put it. Anyone could see that it was going to rain, a nd the best hay would be ruined unless the entire family worked like demons to g et it in.So it was that Peter was sent alone for the very first time to fetch th e cows home for milking, and when he couldn't find them he went looking on the o pen, dangerous moor. Here, instead of a sunset there seemed to be something evil and threatening, and Peter could see nothing. No tors, no skyline, no cows, not hing. He was lost in a grey swirling, Dartmoor fog.…