Ship's Cat [Hardcover]

Richard Adams (Author), Alan Aldridge (Author)

Book Description

The adventures and brave deeds of a cat living aboard a ship sailing along the Spanish Main.

--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 32 pages
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd; 1st Ed. edition (October 6, 1977)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0224014412
• ISBN-13: 978-0224014410
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,080,360 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Richard George Adams (born 9 May, 1920) is an English novelist who is best known as the author of Watership Down.

He originally began telling the story of Watership Down to his two daughters, and they insisted he publish it as a book. When Watership Down was finally published, it sold over a million copies in record time in both the United Kingdom and the United States. Watership Down has become a modern classic and won both the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize in 1972.

Richard Adams currently lives in Hampshire, England.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ship's Cat review..., July 1, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The Ship's Cat (Hardcover)

This is an incredible 'childrens' book. The artwork is incredible, detailed and unbelievably imaginative. I was amazed to discover that it had gone out of print, as I was certain that in the time that had lapsed between my childhood and now it would have surely become a classic. I highly recommend it for anyone who enjoys very artistic, creative and amazingly detailed picture books, not to mention a swashbuckling adventure story.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastically illustrated, November 6, 2000

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Hazel Robinson (Liverpool, England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ship's Cat (Hardcover)

I have a copy of this book. It is exquisitely illustrated by Alan Aldridge, who illustrated for The Beatles.

Celtic lettering of unparalleled quality.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lost Treasure, May 21, 2001

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L. Cameron (Oklahoma USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ship's Cat (Hardcover)

Really a pity to see such a treasure of a book out-of-print. I grew up with Dad reading this to me (am now 25) and the challenge of its language and verse, not to mention exquisitley curious art, broadens a child's horizon's far more than the PC drivel we print today.

Too bad I can't find a mint copy anywhere :/