Alone on a wide wide sea
By - Morpurgo, Michael
Floor
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Floor 3
Published
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HarperCollins Children's, London, 2006
ISBN 13 - 9780007916368
Book Status
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1 Qnty Available with us.
Subject
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Boats and boating Fiction
Shelf No
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9
Call Number
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823.914 MOR
Physical Description
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312 pages ; 22 cm
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 hi daughter Allie - a solo yaught designed to carry her to England in search of his long lost sister. Will the threads of Arthur's life finally come together?"