- Paperback: 400 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins; New edition edition (29 Nov 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0586214631
- ISBN-13: 978-0586214633
- Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 11 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,164,582 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In the Highlands, Skelter the hare led a wonderful life - browsing among the heathers, taking in the scenery and chatting up females. Until one day he and several of his fellows are trapped in a net and transported south, for hare coursing.
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Amongst the gorse and heather of his native highlands, Skelter the mountain hare enjoys an idyllic life – until he and several of his friends are trapped, netted and taken hundreds of miles to the strange lands of the south. There, amidst a hell of screaming men and howling greyhounds, Skelter witnesses the nightmare of hare coursing before making a miraculous escape. But it is an escape into an unfamiliar world. The local animals shun him and he cannot understand his habitat. But Skelter is a remarkable hare. Undaunted he becomes a local hero, earning the respect of others. His greatest test, however, is yet to come. For he must face up to the flogre, a vast flying monster intent on terrorising the countryside and eager for another kill.
"Kilworth's characters are credible and the sense of place he creates is immediate and strong"
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"Accurate, fascinating and convincing"
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Garry Kilworth has written a wonderful adventure story centred around hares, but also encompassing the many other species which live around them in the countryside. Telling a story from the perspective of a hare, and getting the reader to identify with an animal is not as easy thing to do, but Kilworth pulls it off with ease.
The book centres around Skelter, who is captured from his native highlands by the most mysterious predator of them all, man, and is taken away for hare coursing. After the first of many miraculous escapes related in the story, Skelter avoids being ripped to pieces by the dogs and is forced to settle in an alien environment and live amongst the native hares.
The bulk of the story, however, deals with the hares' struggle with a new devastating predator which threatens to decimate their local colonies and drive them to extinction.
Funny in places, moving in others, you'll find it hard to look at an animal, domestic or wild, after reading this book, and wonder what they're REALLY thinking!
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Long live the hares!
24 Oct 2004
Format:Hardcover
This book is fasanating! Its about a blue hare(Skelter) who comes from the highlands, then to be trapped from his beloved home and taken to the flatlands by the sea. After escaping a coursing he meets many animals and joins up with a colony of brown hairs. He soon finds out that the land is terrorised by a flying monster so called the flogre. This is where Skelter trys to find a way to save these hares and himself!
Along the same line of Watership down Kilworth has made this book into a masterpiece. Along with reading his other books, Midnights sun and Hunters moon this story has to be the best!
To any animal lover such as myself, I advise you to read his books! You are sure to enjoy them!
Along the same line of Watership down Kilworth has made this book into a masterpiece. Along with reading his other books, Midnights sun and Hunters moon this story has to be the best!
To any animal lover such as myself, I advise you to read his books! You are sure to enjoy them!
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