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It starts with a noise reverberating in the hill. David and Keith see a boy appear from the ground, carrying a candle and beating a drum. He is an 18th-century drummer boy, who will have an irreversible effect on both their lives. Extraordinary things start to happen - standing stones move, giants stalk the hills, and wild boar rampage through the town. Then, David vanishes, and Keith must search through time for his friend...In the forty years since its first publication, "Earthfasts" has become an indispensable classic.
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Amid an English landscape that attests to more than a millennium of human activity, two teenaged boys are at the focus of bizarre events in which the past penetrates the present. This novel assumes a young person's perspective without condescension or artistic compromise. The writing, lean and vivid with powerful evocations of landscape and mood, invites reading aloud. Norgate does handsomely by it, reading with a gravity that carries no hint of extravagance or mockery. The listener is particularly aware of his mastery of a wide range of British dialects. J.N. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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- PublisherEP Dutton
- Publication date1966
- ISBN 10 0241907535
- ISBN 13 9780241907535
- BindingHardcover
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Earthfasts
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Earthfasts / William Mayne
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later edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine, somewhat dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 154 pages ; 22 cm. Subjects: Arthur King ; Juvenile fiction.Time travel ; Juvenile fiction.Science fiction, English.Children's stories. Paranormal fiction.Arthurian romances; Juvenile fiction.Yorkshire (England). Wales History 20th century. GenreFiction. Fantasy. Children's Fiction. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 309272
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Hardcover. Condition: USED_GOOD. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket in good condition. Jacket is slightly marked, and edges are creased and nicked. Ink line through price on front inner flap. Board edges are sunned, and spine ends are bumped. Page block is lightly blemished. Ink mark on front pastedown. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used. Seller Inventory # 548867
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later edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine, somewhat dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 154 pages ; 22 cm. Subjects: Arthur King ; Juvenile fiction.Time travel ; Juvenile fiction.Science fiction, English.Children's stories. Paranormal fiction.Arthurian romances; Juvenile fiction.Yorkshire (England). Wales History 20th century. GenreFiction. Fantasy. Children's Fiction. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 309272
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