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Tarka the Otter
Henry Williamson
An otter's life in the rivers of Devon, told with a naturalist's precision and a novelist's sympathy. Published in 1927, it remains one of the finest animal narratives in English — unsentimental, ecologically exact, and devastating.
River & Water
wildlife
Fiction
Alps & Europe
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Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Published
1905
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