- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: John Goodchild Publishers; New edition edition (26 July 1984)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0863910351
- ISBN-13: 978-0863910357
- Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 13.8 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,232,581 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Look, David," whispered Peter, and pointed ahead. "Can you see it? Look, a little light on top of the Mynd. It's a fire, I'm sure. That aeroplane we heard has crashed. What shall we do?" Luckily, all is well. Pilot and passengers are safe. But from then on mysterious things start to happen in the Witchend area. Pet dogs disappear, and when found again they are often deaf and blind. The disability is only temporary, but what is causing it? Is it something to do with the temperamental scientist Robens who lives in a remote and desolate cottage, or with the unpleasant man they call "The Doctor", both of whom were passengers on the crashed plane? Lone Piners are determined to get to the bottom of the mystery. And when their beloved Scottie Macbeth disappears too, they split up to search for him. David, Peter and Mary think they hear howling in the depths of a mountain cave. Perhaps Mackie is hidden there, but while they are trying to revive him from his doped state, they hear someone (perhaps the wild-eyed Robens) coming back into the cave. They hide on top of a pile of sloping shingle. But, to their horror, the stones start to slip, forwards towards the intruder, and, even worse backwards into what seems in the darkness like a bottomless pit . . .
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Another Brilliant Lone Pine Adventure,
By Powderfinger (Kent, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Neglected Mountain: a Lone Pine Adventure (Hardcover)
This is the seventh adventure in the Lone Pine series. The story involves the Lone Piners tracking down evil scientists who are making a chemical spray to knock out guard dogs. After many adventures the Lone Piners win through but not before a terrific episode in the old mine shafts below the Stiperstone Hills where one of the Lone Piners nearly meets a sticky end!As with all of the Lone Pine books this is an excellent adventure set in a real landscape that you can visit for yourself. It is a shame that more of this series is not available to readers.
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
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A Superb Saville Story Set in Shropshire,
By jmackenzie48@yahoo.com (Newcastle Upon Tyne, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Neglected Mountain: a Lone Pine Adventure (Hardcover)
There are so many positive ingredients in this "Lone Pine" story that is difficult to keep the list of its virtues short enough for this review. Each story in the series of twenty books is fascinating to read but I have to admit that "The Neglected Mountain" and "Not Scarlet but Gold" are my favourites. Malcolm Saville at one time promised to keep the children the same age in each of the adventures. It was surely in this book (Number 7 in the series) that he began to change his mind for, as you read it, you realise that the extra dimension it has is the way he has begun to explore the relationship between Peter (Petronella) and David in more depth.Extreme danger brings out the best in people and it also gives us a glimpse of the feelings that have been gradually developing from book to book. And then, just like the journey into the mine, those feelings are driven underground until the eruption of emotions in "Not Scarlet but Gold". This ability to show his characters growing up is what sets him apart from other authors who are writing for both boys and girls. The children's personalities stay marvellously the same and yet somehow become intriguingly different. And now for the list of the other virtues - the haunting description of landscape, the harrowing and totally compelling plot involving a threat to everybody's favourite dog, the comedy of the Morton twins, the tremendous capacity for describing journeys, the gift of lively dialogue..... I must stop. I would recommend any parent to start their children on this series. They may begin by enjoying the plots but they will return to see what happens to the characters whose lives they have joined. Just like Mary, worried to death about her Scottie dog, they will still be alert enough to recognise the special secret that she has overheard and hints to us all on the last page of "The Neglected Mountain".
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