Penguin, UK, 1976. Reprint. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 186 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Penguin, UK, 1976. Reprint. *** CONDITION: This book is in good condition. More specifically: Covers have moderate creasing. Edges of covers have superficial wear. Spine is uncreased. . Pages are reasonably tanned. Previous owner's name in ink. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: The people of remote Inishrone, a few miles off the Connemara coast, know better than to go to the Island of Horses. Everyone has heard tales of men who have gone there and never come back. Yet one day young Pat Conroy and his friend Danny MacDonagh head off anyway, telling their parents that they are fishing for eels. On the island they find no ghosts but many mysteries, including a beautifuland tameblack colt. But when they return home, with the colt in tow, they find themselves launched into a world of trouble. Before their adventure is over, the boys must brave rough seas and the murderous duplicity of a conniving horse trader, with only the advice of Pat's frail grandmother and their own good sense to guide them. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Children & Young Adult; Teenage Fiction; ISBN: 0140308601. ISBN/EAN: 9780140308600. Inventory No: 21090157.. 9780140308600

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Eilís Dillon (1920-1994) wrote more than thirty books for young people, as well as fiction for adults, including the best-selling historical novel Across the Bitter Sea , about the struggle for Irish independence in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. With few exceptions, her young people’s books are set in the west of Ireland, in small communities struggling to make a living on the islands and along the Atlantic coast. As the critic Declan Kiberd wrote in Dillon’s obituary: “What Laura Ingalls Wilder did for children’s literature in the US, she achieved in Ireland, imparting a sure historical sense in books such as The Singing Cave . That interest in history was a natural expression of her curiosity of mind, and of her family inheritance."

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Bookseller: Manyhills Books (AU)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 21090157
Title: The Island of Horses
Author: Eilis Dillon
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: Reprint
ISBN 10: 0140308601
ISBN 13: 9780140308600
Publisher: Penguin
Place of Publication: UK
Date Published: 1976
Keywords: BZDB5 Children & Young Adult; The Island of Horses
Bookseller catalogs: Children & Young Adult;

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Reprint: Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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