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Tarka the Otter: His Joyful Water-Life and Death in the Country of the Two Rivers is a highly influential novel by Henry Williamson, first published in 1927 by G.P. Putnam's Sons with an introduction by the Hon. Sir John Fortescue. It won the Hawthornden Prize in 1928 and remains Willamson's best-known and most popular work, having never been out of print since first publication.
As its title suggests, the novel describes the life of an otter, along with a detailed observation of its habitat in the country of the River Taw and River Torridge in North Devon (the "Two Rivers"); the name "Tarka" is said by Williamson to mean "Wandering as Water" (p. 10). Though often now characterised as a children's book, Tarka has influenced literary figures as diverse as Ted Hughes and Rachel Carson.
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Tarka the otter: his joyful water-life and death in the country of the two rivers
1990, Beacon Press
in English
- 1st Beacon pbk. ed.
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Tarka the otter: his joyful water-life and death in the country of the two rivers
1982, Bodley Head
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0370309197 9780370309194
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Tarka the Otter
September 1982, Salem House Publishers
Hardcover
in English
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Tarka the otter: his joyful water-life and death in the country of the two rivers
1981, Ulverscroft
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0708905455 9780708905456
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Tarka the otter: his joyful water-life and death in the country of the two rivers
1981, Macmillan Education
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0333306023 9780333306024
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Tarka the otter: his joyful water-life and death in the two rivers
1937, Penguin
in English
0140590110 9780140590111
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