The Desperate Journey

ISBN-13: 9780863158810 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 161 str.

Kathleen Fidler

Opis

Ten-year-old twins Kirsty and David Murray love their crofting life in the north of Scotland. They collect shellfish, milk the cows, and help their father grow oats and vegetables. One day the countess's men come and burned their house, saying they would have to leave. The family traveled across Scotland to Glasgow. City life is dirty and overcrowded, and work in the mills is hard and dangerous. Then a chance comes to join a ship that will sail for Hudson Bay in Canada...and once again they start a long, perilous journey. Will they survive the treacherous Atlantic crossing, and what will they find in the strange new land? Kathleen Fidler had a gift for bringing historical characters to life for today's children. The Desperate Journey is her best-known story, a true Scottish classic whose thrilling plot will keep children gripped from start to end. (Ages 8-12)