by Joan Aiken · Oetinger Verlag · tapa dura · ISBN 9783789130113
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«Die Todesklippe von Aratu» is the mystery and adventure novel by Joan Aiken, published by Oetinger Verlag in hardcover, in German.
Dido Twite, shipwrecked off a Scottish island, is picked up by a whaler and carried across the oceans. On the island of Aratu, covered in jungle and full of snakes and spiny monkeys, she must find the ambassador Lord Herodsfoot and return him to England. Manoel, brother of the island's king, conspires to seize power without balking at crimes.
It belongs to the series «Die Wölfe von Willoughby», translated by Irmela Brender. German edition published in 2000.
Suitable for readers aged 12 and up, especially those who enjoy mystery and adventure novels for young people.
Joan Delano Aiken was an English writer specialising in supernatural fiction and children's alternative history novels. In 1999 she was awarded an MBE for her services to children's literature. For The Whispering Mountain, published by Jonathan Cape in 1968, she won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a book award judged by a panel of British children's writers, and she was a commended runner-up for the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British writer. She won an Edgar Allan Poe Award (1972) for Night Fall.
