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The Tyger Voyage

The Tyger Voyage( )
Author: Adams, Richard
Illustrator: Bayley, Nicola
ISBN:978-1-56792-491-6
Publication Date:Jul 2013
Publisher:David R. Godine Publisher
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $15.95
Book Description:

A fantasy read-aloud filled with humor, suspense, and adventure by the author of the classic, Watership Down. A gentleman tyger and his son set sail on a boat into the unknown. Together they roam across the seas, through jungles, past ice-covered mountains and erupting volcanoes to be rescued at last by a troupe of gypsies. Eventually they return in triumph to Victorian England with many an extraordinary tale to tell. A wonderfully rich...
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Adams, Richard (Author)
Richard George Adams was born in Newbury, England on May 9, 1920. He enrolled at the University of Oxford in 1938, but his studies were interrupted by World War II. During the war, he served with the British airborne forces in the Middle East and India. After the war, he returned to Oxford and received a degree in history in 1948. He joined the Ministry of Housing and Local Government and worked his way up over 20 years to a senior post in the clean-air section of the environmental department. He retired in 1974 to become a full-time writer.

His first his novel, Watership Down, was published in 1972. It received the Carnegie Medal in Literature in 1972 and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize in 1973. His other books include Shardik, The Plague Dogs, Traveller, and Tales from Watership Down. He also wrote an autobiography entitled The Day Gone By. He died on December 24, 2016 at the age of 96.

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