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Lassie is Joe's prize collie and constant companion. But when Joe's
father loses his job, Lassie must be sold. Three times she escapes
from her new owner, and three times she returns home to Joe, until
finally she is taken to the remotest part of Scotland--too far a
journey for any dog to make alone . . . But Lassie is not just any
dog.
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Lassie Come-Home (Paperback)
Eric Knight; Illustrated by Gary Blythe
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Everyone in the Yorkshire town of Greenall Bridge knows Lassie, the
prize collie of miner Sam Carraclough and his son Joe. But when the
family falls on hard times, Sam is forced to sell his dog to the
Duke of Rudling, who takes her hundreds of miles away to his estate
in Scotland. Undeterred by the distance and driven by instinctive
love, Lassie escapes from her new owners and embarks on an epic
journey to be reunited with her young master Joe. Will she survive
the hardships of the long journey and the various dangers along the
way? Based on the author's own childhood memories and filled with
adventure and suspense, Lassie Come-Home - Eric Knight's best-loved
novel and a huge best-seller, famously adapted into a 1943
Hollywood movie - is a timeless classic and one of the greatest dog
stories ever written.
'An original and vital contribution to understanding politics.' -
Matt Ridley, author of The Rational Optimist How to solve the
world's trickiest political problems? In Reframe, Eric Knight
explains how a change of focus can reveal a solution that was lying
just outside your frame of vision. From terrorism to global
warming, from border security to high finance, he brings a new
perspective that is both exhilarating and useful. Why can't we
eliminate terrorism by killing terrorists? Why can't we learn
anything about climate change by talking about the weather? Why
can't we resolve immigration tensions by building higher fences?
And what do fishermen in Turkey have to teach us about
international relations? This is an optimistic, lucid and original
book by a brilliant young Australian thinker.
These ten stories of Sam Small and other Yorkshiremen, were written
by Eric Knight (of 'Lassie Come Home' fame), with pride and a touch
of homesickness, while 'in exile' in America in the early 20th
century. Sam Small is a brilliant creation, thick of accent but
sharp of mind and with the power of flight! These stories are
larger than life, full of improbable accounts and the humor that
arises from clashes in culture, and all laced with traditional
Yorkshire values and wit.
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