by James Oliver Curwood · Juventud · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788426107954
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«Centella» is the adventure novel by James Oliver Curwood, published by Juventud in paperback (177 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows Centella, an imposing wolf with canine blood who feels an instinctive attraction to humans. His encounters with them place him between wild life and the domestic world, in an adventure about nature, loyalty, and the bonds between animals and people.
The original title of the work, published in 1919, is «Swift Lightning: A Story of Wildlife Adventure in the Frozen North».
For readers of adventure classics and stories featuring wild animals.
James Oliver Curwood was an American action-adventure writer and conservationist. His books were often based on adventures set in the Hudson Bay area, the Yukon or Alaska and ranked among the top-ten best sellers in the United States in the early and mid 1920s, according to Publishers Weekly. At least one hundred and eighty motion pictures have been based on or directly inspired by his novels and short stories; one was produced in three versions from 1919 to 1953. At the time of his death, Curwood was the highest paid author in the world.
