In the wild there is no safety. The otter cub Tarka grows up with his mother and sisters, learning to swim, catch fish - and to fear the cry of the hunter and the flash of the metal trap. Soon he must fend for himself, travelling through rivers, woods, moors, ponds and out to sea, sometimes with the female otters White-tip and Greymuzzle, always on the run. Eventually, chased by a pack of hounds, he meets his nemesis, the fearsome dog Deadlock, and must fight for his life.

 

This book is part of a book series called Penguin Modern Classics .

There are 208 pages in this book. This book was published 2009 by Penguin Books Ltd .

Jeremy Gavron is the author of five books, including The Last Elephant: An African Quest , and three novels, Moon , The Book of Israel , which won the Encore Award, and An Acre of Barren Ground . Henry William Williamson was born in 1895 in Brockley, south-east London. The then semi-rural location provided easy access to the countryside, and he developed a deep love of nature throughout his childhood. He became a prolific author known for his natural and social history novels. He won the Hawthornden Prize for literatrure in 1928 for Tarka the Otter.