Buy this book on-line MORPURGO**, MICHAEL: : Alone on a Wide Wide Sea. **LONDON.HarperCollins Children's Books,2006. ISBN 9780007230563.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn. [Complete number line 1.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt and glossy laminated colour photographic illustrated dw/dj,with silver gilt,light+dark blue lettering to front panel; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean -near pristine but for a possible accidental(?) corner crease to bottom corners of pp299/300 as a larger crease with tiny crease folds to its tips too - else solid and sound - no other intentional or otherwise dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,would still appear unread other than my collation.Publisher's bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain white paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,blocked red ink printed letters to spine/backstrip and clean part-photographic illustrated endpapers. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn,11-312pp [paginated] includes Pts 1+2; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title page,a Contents list/table, double-page b/w world map,Pts separator pages, yacht's b/w plans/diagrams,double-page b/w world and 2pp blanks at the rear.
When six-year-old orphan Arthur Hobhouse is shipped to Australia after WWII he loses his sister,his country and everything he knows.
Overcoming enormous hardships with fellow orphan Marty,Arthur is finally saved by the extraordinary people he meets and by his talent for boat-design and sailing.Now he has built a special boat for his daughter Allie - a solo yacht designed to carry her to England in search of his long-lost sister.Will the threads of Arthur's life finally come together?
Michael Morpurgo gives us a lyrical,life-affirming novel which charts the journey from childhood to maturity,from innocence to experience,and from loneliness to love.
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