Lord Brocktree

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Random House Children's Books, 2001 - Juvenile Fiction - 370 pages
Peace Has Gone On Too Long. Something Inside Me Says That Trouble Such As These Shores Have Never Known Is Headed Our Way.' Salamandastron, Under The Guardianship Of Old Lord Stonepaw, Is Under Threat From An Enemy Of Immense And Terrifying Power. Ungatt Trunn, The Wildcat Who Can Make The Stars Fall From The Sky, Has Attacked With His Blue Hordes And Is Determined That The Fortress Should Be His. The Mountain'S Defences Are Weak And It Seems That Nothing Can Stand In His Way. Nothing, That Is, But The Badger Lord Brocktree, Who Is Drawn To Salamandastron By An Undeniable Sense Of Destiny. But If He Is To Rescue The Mountain From Trunn And His Verminous Hordes, He Must Gather About Him An Army Capable Of Defeating Them In Battle. Together With The Irrepressible Haremaid, Dotti, And A Host Of Brave Creatures, Brocktree Journeys To Salamandastron To Fulfil His Destiny. Brian Jacques' Masterful Storytelling Spins A Web Of High Adventure That Will Enthral The Reader From The First Page To The Last.

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Brian Jacques was born in Liverpool, England on June 15, 1939. After he finished St. John's School at the age of fifteen, he became a merchant seaman and travelled to numerous ports including New York, Valparaiso, San Francisco, and Yokohama. Tiring of the lonely life of a sailor, he returned to Liverpool where he worked as a railway fireman, a longshoreman, a long-distance truck driver, a bus driver, a boxer, a police constable, a postmaster, and a stand-up comic. During the sixties, he was a member of the folk singing group The Liverpool Fishermen. He wrote both poetry and music, but he began his writing career in earnest as a playwright. His three stage plays Brown Bitter, Wet Nellies, and Scouse have been performed at the Everyman Theatre. He wrote Redwall for the children at the Royal Wavertree School for the Blind in Liverpool, where he delivered milk as a truck driver. His style of writing is very descriptive, because of the nature of his first audience, for whom he painted pictures with words, so that they could see them in their imaginations. After Alan Durband, his childhood English teacher, read Redwall, he showed it to a publisher without telling Jacques. This event led to a contract for the first five books in the Redwall series. He also wrote the Castaways of the Flying Dutchman series. He died on February 5, 2011.

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