The Ship's Cat
by Richard Adams
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The adventures and brave deeds of a cat living aboard a ship sailing along the Spanish Main.Tags
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The Ships Cat is an intricately and stunningly illustrated book about a stowaway cat who joins a ship crew. He becomes a success and even meets royalty! The story, written in prose, is also in beautiful font. This book, I feel, is an exceptional work of art, almost more than it is a story.
I received this book before I could read it, it was beyond my level at the time. But the pictures were enough to keep me coming back to it. Once I was able to read it well, it was even better.
I received this book before I could read it, it was beyond my level at the time. But the pictures were enough to keep me coming back to it. Once I was able to read it well, it was even better.
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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 show more 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. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title*
- Le chat du bord
- Original title
- The Ship's Cat
- Alternate titles
- The Adventures & Brave Deeds Of The Ship's Cat On The Spanish Maine: Together With The Most Lamentable Losse Of The Alcestis & Triumphant Firing Of The Port Of Chagres
- Original publication date
- 1977
- Important places
- Chagres, Panama
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- Languages
- English, French
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
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