The Children of the New Forest

Captain Marryat (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

64 Seiten

2000 | Revised edition
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-422967-8 (ISBN)

Infos

It is England in 1647: King Charles is in prison, and Cromwell's men are fighting the King's men. The four Beverley children have no parents. Now, Cromwell's soldiers have come to burn the house, with the children in it. The four of them escape into the New Forest, but how will they live? What will they eat? And will Cromwell's soldiers find them?

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England in 1647: King Charles is in prison, and Cromwell's men are fighting the King's men. These are dangerous times for everybody. The four Beverley children have no parents; their mother is dead and their father died while fighting for the King. Now Cromwell's soldiers have come to burn the house - with the children in it. The four of them escape into the New Forest - but how will they live? What will they eat? And will Cromwell's soldiers find them?

Autor

Captain Frederick Marryatt (1792-1848) was born in London and went to sea at the age of thirteen. He became a captain in his twenties, and had many adventures before he became a writer.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.7.2000
• Co-Autor: Rowena Akinyemi
• Zusatzinfo: black and white illustrations
• Verlagsort: Oxford
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 0-19-422967-X / 019422967X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-19-422967-8 / 9780194229678
• Zustand: Neuware