Biggles Breaks the Silence: Biggles, Special Air Detective, cartea 5
Autor Captain W. E. Johnsen Limba Engleză Hardback – 13 mar 2023
A ghost ship full of long-lost gold beckons, and Biggles gets an icy reception...
Biggles, Algie, Bertie and Ginger are visited by Grimes, an old pal from the war, whose father, a Merchant Navy captain known as Jumbo, is in a spot of bother. He was recently tricked into skippering a crew of seal poachers to an islet off Antarctica. While there, they spotted an old ship still rigged for sail trapped in the pack ice. After an investigation of the ship, Jumbo overheard the words 'starry' and 'crown' from the jubilant crew.An avid fan of an unsolved mysteries, Biggles immediately recognises the importance of these words. Jumbo and his crew had stumbled upon the long-lost schooner Starry Crown, which went missing seventy years prior with a ton of Australian gold ingots aboard. There have been several sightings and ill-fated recovery expeditions since, but no one has ever retrieved the gold.
Grimes reckons that they might be able to beat the poachers to the treasure if they were to go by air, and wonders if Biggles is interested in an adventure. After making a few enquiries, Biggles agrees to the expedition, but there is more than gold in the Starry Crown, and no help for miles across Antarctica's vast silence
Wrap up warm for a classic Biggles adventure to the frozen continent of Antarctica.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781804364413
ISBN-10: 180436441X
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Canelo
Colecția Canelo
Seria Biggles, Special Air Detective
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 180436441X
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Canelo
Colecția Canelo
Seria Biggles, Special Air Detective
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
William Earl Johns was an English adventure writer, best known as the creator of the beloved Biggles stories, which drew on his experience as a pilot in the First World War. After his flying career with the RAF, Johns became a newspaper air correspondent, an occupation he combined with editing and illustrating books about flying. He wrote over 160 books, including nearly 100 Biggles titles.