A young otter cub named Tarka learns early that the wild offers no refuge. Raised by his mother and sisters, he discovers how to swim and hunt — and how to read the sounds of danger: the hunter’s cry, the cold glint of a steel trap. When the time comes to make his own way, he ranges far across rivers, moors, woodland and open sea, running always, sometimes alongside the female otters White-tip and Greymuzzle. The world he moves through is beautiful and pitiless in equal measure. His journey brings him at last to a final reckoning with Deadlock, the fearsome hound who has long been his nemesis, and a fight from which only one will walk away.
ISBN 13: 9780141190358
Author: Henry Williamson
