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Cargando... The Island Stallion (1948)por Walter Farley
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Not as good as The Black Stallion but still good. This is the book that made me want to be an archeologist. That didn't pan out for me but it had the same effect on my boys. So maybe they will become archeologists.:-) They immediately wanted to read the next book. ( ) A fantasy set on a supposed desert island in the Carribean. Steve Duncan and his local resident friend Pitch go to Azul Island to look at the wild horses and maybe explore for traces of the Spanish Conquistadores. They encounter a hidden fortress lost for 350 years. In the interior of the island they find a beautiful valley where a band of Spanish horses have survived and Steve becomes attached to the chestnut stallion he names Flame. There are rival stallions, but the fight scenes are not very realistic (it's unlikely that the stallions would fight to the death). But it's hard to complain about that when so much of the story is fantastical and unlikely. Still, as a children's book focusing on the boy who loves horses it's exactly right. The isolated horses brought to a mysterious island by the Spanish exist unknown to the people on the mainland, who occasionally round-up their degenerate descendants living along the shore. Discovered by a young boy inspired by a visionary remembrance of tales of the horses, and perhaps a premonitory dream, discovers the secret valley sheltering the herd, which is in the midst of a succession crisis. Mostly for mid to older teens, because of the equine violence. I started a Black Stallion re-read several years ago, and though I've been buying the books as I come across them, I've failed to keep up with my re-read. Probably because I knew that this was next in line, and I never liked the Island books as well as the ones about the Black. My memory served me well- this is a clunky, painful book. The two human characters are dorky beyond all belief, and the horses are either angels or demons. The plot about the Conquistadores is also clunky. Clunky, clunky, clunky. And yet... I read the whole thing again. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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A boy and his archeologist friend spend two weeks on a desolate Caribbean island where they discover a hidden valley, underground tunnels built by Spanish Conquistadors, and a wild flame-colored stallion. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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