"There's nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing around in boats." Fed up of spring-cleaning, the Mole flees his underground dwelling to discover a world full of adventure - from boating on the river with the Water Rat to the forbidden Wild Wood, over which the Badger keeps watch, and Toad's obsession over anything with four wheels and a motor. After Toad commits a series of car-related felonies, he is sentenced to a lengthy imprisonment in a maximum-security dungeon. Can he escape and atone for his reckless behaviour? And can the four friends reclaim Toad...
"There's nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing around in boats." Fed up of spring-cleaning, the Mole flees his und...
By the year 1215, King John had lost most of England's continental holdings. He taxed and humbled his barons. So enraged were they by John's excesses that by winter, they had offered England to Louis, King of France, if only he would land an army and take it. This, Louis was about to do. But, King John, the wrong man for the times, stubbornly would not yield. Despite his many faults, John was a tire-less organizer, and with a third of England's nobility behind him, and in resolute command of his mercenary army, he began to turn the situation around. The barons recognized it was time to change...
By the year 1215, King John had lost most of England's continental holdings. He taxed and humbled his barons. So enraged were they by John's excesses ...
