John Buchan

eBook, ePUB

The Magic Walking Stick (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

"The Magic Walking Stick" is a children's short story by John Buchan. Our hero is a teenage boy who buys a walking stick from a beggar - a magic walking stick that allows the boy to visit many places at his command... It is a fantastical story about a pair of magical walking sticks; one that will cease to function if it is used for any practical purpose, and another that will cease to function if it isn't. Unfortunately, our protagonist doesn't know which one he possesses. This charming one-of-a-kind classic is a beautiful compilation which includes the timeless story, "The Magic Walking-Stick" and several additional Arabian Nights classic stories including; The Seven Voyages of Sinbad, The Story of the Magic Horse, The Story of the Fisherman and the Genie and more. It's a charming and entertaining tale perfect for bedtime reading.

Technische Details

• Geräte: eReader
• ohne Kopierschutz
• Größe: 2.15MB
• FamilySharing(5)

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir was born in Perth, Scotland in 1875, the son of the Reverend John Buchan, a Presbyterian clergyman, and his wife Helen Masterton, the daughter of a sheep farmer. He read classics at the universities of Glasgow and Oxord before embarking on a career spanning the London bar, the Fleet Street press, the northern and southern hemispheres of the British Empire, the Houses of Parliament, and the long wooden shelves of literature. Best known today for his adventure stories, and in particular The Thirty-Nine Steps, which Alfred Hitchcock brought to the cinema in 1935, he was a stakhanovite of English letters, penning dozens of novels and historical works in all. He died in Montreal in 1940.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Ktoczyta.pl
• Seitenzahl: 118
• Altersempfehlung: ab 6 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9788381157568
• Artikelnr.: 48947072