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Categories: Science fiction Fantasy Mystery Romance Business Classic Sports Young adult Humor Memoirs See all categories... |
Here is a book with all the ingredients best beloved by children - adventure, excitement, romance - for it tells of an eleven-year-old hero's thrilling experiences among conspirators in a European state. The state is ruled by Count Jasper, Governor of the citadel, and his troop of Black Riders. Dick, the young hero, falls in with Jasper's enemy, known as Far Away Moses, because he is always far away when the police and secret service think they can catch him. The password is "Fortitude" - and Dick needs it. He has to journey alone among dark forests and castles and unknown hills. Sometimes he finds a shepherd to help him; another time he finds friends among the circus people. Sometimes he travels by train, sometimes by wagon, sometimes on a donkey. But whatever happens his messages must get through.This story transports the young reader to another world from which he or she will be very reluctant to return. It is delightfully illustrated by Anne Bullen who has entered into the spirit of it all, and who portrays Dick's adventures as vividly as Miss Needham describes them.
