Child o'war: The true story of a boy sailor in Nelson's navy
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Leon Garfield (1921-1996) was born and raised in the seaside town of Brighton, England. his father owned a series of businesses, and the family's fortunes fluctuated wildly. Garfield enrolled in art school, left to work in an office, and in 1940 was drafted into the army, serving in the medical corps. After the war, he returned to London and worked as a biochemical technician. in 1948 he married Vivian Alcock, an artist who would later become a successful writer of children's books, and it was she who encouraged him to write his first novel, Jack Holborn, which was published in 1964. in all, Garfield would write some fifty books, including a continuation of Charles Dickens's Mystery of Edwin Drood and retellings of biblical and Shakespearian stories. Among his best-known books are Devil-in-the-Fog (1966, winner of The Guardian Children's Fiction Prize), The God Beneath the Sea (1970, winner of the Carnegie medal), Bostock and Harris; or, The Night of the Comet (1979; forthcoming from The New York Review Children's Collection), and John Diamond (1980, winner of the Whitbread Award).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780030916076 |
| ISBN 10 | 0030916070 |
| Title | Child o'war: The true story of a boy sailor in Nelson's navy |
| Author | Garfield Leon And Proctor David |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Holt, Rinehart and Winston |
| Year published | 1972-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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