Who wrote the book Tarka The Otter?
"after the otter in Henry Williamson's book ""Tarka the Otter"" which is set in the area. It is one of the railway lines supported by the Devon and Cornwall Rail Partnership, an organisation formed in 1991 to promote railway services in the area. The line is promoted by many means such as regular timetable and scenic line guides, as well as leaflets highlighting leisure opportunities such as walking or visiting country pubs. The Tarka Line rail ale trail was launched in 2002, the first of several such schemes which encourages rail travellers to visit pubs near the line. The trail"
"was inspired to write ""Tarka"" after rescuing and raising an otter cub, but the truth of this story is uncertain and it seems likely that the 1909 book ""The Life Story of an Otter"", by Cornish naturalist John Coulson Tregarthen, was a more substantial influence. Nevertheless, Williamson spent a great deal of time gathering information on otters' habits and behaviour. The original edition featured illustrations by Charles Tunnicliffe. The book was extremely well-received on publication, attracting praise from Thomas Hardy and T. E. Lawrence, amongst others. Although not written for children, the book soon became popular with young readers. At"
"Henry Williamson Henry William Williamson (1 December 1895 – 13 August 1977) was an English army officer, naturalist, farmer, and writer known for his novels on natural and social history, and his advocacy of ruralism. He won the Hawthornden Prize for literature in 1928 with his book ""Tarka the Otter"". Henry Williamson was born in Brockley in south-east London. In early childhood his family moved to Ladywell, and he received a grammar school education at Colfe's School. The then semi-rural location provided easy access to the Kent countryside, and he developed a deep love of nature throughout his childhood. On"
"Tarka (film) ""Not to be confused with Tarka the Otter (film)."" Tarka (, ) is a 1989 Indian Kannada language suspense thriller film directed and produced by Sunil Kumar Desai inspired by Agatha Christie's play ""The Unexpected Guest"", and starring Shankar Nag, Devaraj and Vanitha Vasu. It also features Shivaraj, Avinash, Shashidhar Bhat, Praveen Nayak and Sudhakar Pai. The film was unusual for, it had no fight and song sequences, unlike most films during the time. It was also a commercial success during the time of its release and completed a 100-day run in theatres. The film is considered a"
"The film ends with Akshay tackling the cops out and escaping again. Box office The film was super blockbuster thriller film at the box office and after 30 years the film was re-released at 3 rd February 2017 Tarka (film) ""Not to be confused with Tarka the Otter (film)."" Tarka (, ) is a 1989 Indian Kannada language suspense thriller film directed and produced by Sunil Kumar Desai inspired by Agatha Christie's play ""The Unexpected Guest"", and starring Shankar Nag, Devaraj and Vanitha Vasu. It also features Shivaraj, Avinash, Shashidhar Bhat, Praveen Nayak and Sudhakar Pai. The film was unusual"
"Denys Watkins-Pitchford, who described it as ""the greatest animal story ever written"". The book has led to Britain's Tarka Trail and to the establishment of the Tarka Country Tourism Authority in North Devon. In 1978 Sir David Attenborough narrated an audiobook version of the story, released as a double audio cassette. The novel has been adapted into a film: ""Tarka the Otter"". In 1974, Williamson began working on a script for a film treatment of the novel, but it was not regarded as suitable to film. Having previously rejected two separate offers from Walt Disney, Henry finally accepted an offer"
"continued to be an influential work. Rachel Carson once wrote that Williamson's work had ""deeply influenced"" her and said that ""Tarka the Otter"" and ""Salar the Salmon"" would be two of three books she might take to a desert island. Ted Hughes, who later became friends with an elderly Williamson, repeatedly cited reading the book as an important experience for him, while the author Roger Deakin wrote that he admired the ""beauty and ice-clear accuracy"" of Williamson's writing and described ""Tarka"" as a ""great mythic poem"". Others to whom the book was significant included the nature writers Kenneth Allsop and"
"the time the book was published, otters were generally regarded as vermin, but ""Tarka"" (and more specifically its later film adaptation) is credited with inspiring a transformation in public attitudes to otters. The book remains well-known, and is often used to promote the area of North Devon where it is set. The Tarka Line railway line to Barnstaple, and Tarka Trail long distance footpath and cycle path, are named after the book. Although Williamson's reputation as a writer was affected in the wake of his support for Oswald Mosley and many of his works are now little read, ""Tarka"" has"
"(the ""Two Rivers""); the name ""Tarka"" is said by Williamson to mean ""Wandering as Water"" (p. 10). Though often now characterised as a children's book, ""Tarka"" has influenced literary figures as diverse as Ted Hughes and Rachel Carson. The book is separated into two main parts, ""The First Year"" and ""The Last Year"". It begins shortly before the birth of Tarka in an otter holt on the River Torridge, near the Rolle Canal aqueduct on the Beam estate. After a period learning to swim and hunt, and losing a sibling in a trap, he is separated from his mother and"
"Liza Goddard, ex-president of the Hawk and Owl Trust, of which he was vice-president. David Cobham David Cobham (11 May 1930 – 25 March 2018) was a British film and TV producer and director, best known for the film ""Tarka the Otter"". Cobham directed the BBC's first wildlife film ""Vanishing Hedgerows"" in 1972. He also directed and produced the children's TV series ""Bernard's Watch"", ""Brendon Chase"", ""The Secret World of Polly Flint"", ""Out of Sight"", ""Woof!"" and the wildlife-orientated ""Seal Morning"" (1986). His wildlife films include ""The Goshawk"" (1968), and ""To Build a Fire"" (1969), narrated by Orson Welles. He"
"Gavin Maxwell Gavin Maxwell FRSL, FIAL, FZS (Sc.), FRGS (15 July 19147 September 1969) was a Scottish naturalist and author, best known for his nonfiction writing and his work with otters. He wrote the book ""Ring of Bright Water"" (1960) about how he brought an otter back from Iraq and raised it in Scotland. The otter was of a previously unknown sub-species which was subsequently named after Maxwell. ""Ring of Bright Water"" sold more than a million copies and was made into a film starring Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna in 1969. The title ""Ring of Bright Water"" was taken"
"Tarka Trail The Tarka Trail is a series of footpaths and cyclepaths (rail trails) around north Devon, England that follow the route taken by the fictional Tarka the Otter in the book of that name. It covers a total of in a figure-of-eight route, centred on Barnstaple. The section between Braunton and Meeth is car-free, level and mostly tarmacked, and is shared by pedestrians and cyclists, with horseriding also permitted on part of it. There is a guidebook available for this section. There are 21 yellow-topped audio posts spread out along this section of the Trail. Each post has a"
"and loneliness. Tagore wrote of it: ""I have always regretted the ending"". Internationally, ""Gitanjali"" () is Tagore's best-known collection of poetry, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1913. Tagore was the second non-European after Theodore Roosevelt to receive a Nobel Prize. Besides ""Gitanjali"", other notable works include ""Manasi"", ""Sonar Tori"" (""Golden Boat""), ""Balaka"" (""Wild Geese"" — the title being a metaphor for migrating souls) Tagore's poetic style, which proceeds from a lineage established by 15th- and 16th-century Vaishnava poets, ranges from classical formalism to the comic, visionary, and ecstatic. He was influenced by the atavistic mysticism of"
"wanders around North Devon alone. His first mate is an elderly otter called Greymuzzle, who is killed during Tarka's first winter, which is unusually harsh. In his second year, he fathers a litter of cubs with his second mate, White-tip. Throughout the book Williamson juxtaposes Tarka with his main enemy, the local otter hunt, and particularly the pied hound Deadlock, ""the truest marking-hound in the country of the Two Rivers"" (p. 23). The book ends with a climactic nine-hour hunt of Tarka by the pack, and a confrontation between Tarka and Deadlock. Williamson's attitude to the hunt is somewhat ambivalent:"
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"David Cobham David Cobham (11 May 1930 – 25 March 2018) was a British film and TV producer and director, best known for the film ""Tarka the Otter"". Cobham directed the BBC's first wildlife film ""Vanishing Hedgerows"" in 1972. He also directed and produced the children's TV series ""Bernard's Watch"", ""Brendon Chase"", ""The Secret World of Polly Flint"", ""Out of Sight"", ""Woof!"" and the wildlife-orientated ""Seal Morning"" (1986). His wildlife films include ""The Goshawk"" (1968), and ""To Build a Fire"" (1969), narrated by Orson Welles. He also directed a BBC series about Japan, ""In the Shadow of Fujisan"" (BBC One"
"""tarakan"" means cockroach, hence the pun), on a previously unexplored and unreachable floor of the Scientific Research Institute of Sorcery and Wizardry. Tale of the Troika Tale of the Troika (Сказка о Тройке) is a 1968 satirical science fiction novel written by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky with illustrations by Yevgeniy Migunov. It criticises both Soviet bureaucracy and somewhat the Soviet scientific environment. Although the novel itself is not directed against state ""per se"" and a number of points underlined are true of modern-day bureaucracy and science, it met with a cold reaction during Soviet times and was quite difficult to"
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"Great Torrington Great Torrington (often abbreviated to Torrington, though the villages of Little Torrington and Black Torrington are situated in the same region) is a small market town in the north of Devon, England. Parts of it are sited on high ground with steep drops down to the River Torridge below, with the lower-lying parts of the town prone to occasional flooding. Torrington is in the centre of Tarka Country, a landscape captured by Henry Williamson in his novel ""Tarka the Otter"" in 1927. Great Torrington has one of the most active volunteering communities in the United Kingdom. There were"
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"complete the circular trip. Tarka Trail The Tarka Trail is a series of footpaths and cyclepaths (rail trails) around north Devon, England that follow the route taken by the fictional Tarka the Otter in the book of that name. It covers a total of in a figure-of-eight route, centred on Barnstaple. The section between Braunton and Meeth is car-free, level and mostly tarmacked, and is shared by pedestrians and cyclists, with horseriding also permitted on part of it. There is a guidebook available for this section. There are 21 yellow-topped audio posts spread out along this section of the Trail."
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"this place as I am suffering now."" Raine blamed herself thereafter for all Maxwell's misfortunes, beginning with Mijbil's death and ending with the cancer that took his life in 1969. Maxwell's ashes were scattered on the site of his house ""Camusfeàrna"". Gavin Maxwell Gavin Maxwell FRSL, FIAL, FZS (Sc.), FRGS (15 July 19147 September 1969) was a Scottish naturalist and author, best known for his nonfiction writing and his work with otters. He wrote the book ""Ring of Bright Water"" (1960) about how he brought an otter back from Iraq and raised it in Scotland. The otter was of a"
"Their travels are interspersed with dream-sequence-like flashbacks describing various transformed versions of the 20th Century. The Troika The Troika is a 1997 science fiction novel by American writer Stepan Chapman. Written in surrealist style, the novel features a highly complex plot mixing fantasy and science fiction. It received the Philip K. Dick Award for 1997. The novel introduces three beings – a jeep, a dinosaur, and an old Mexican woman – travelling across a desert under the glare of three suns. They have been travelling for centuries though they do not know why they are crossing the desert or if"
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"In 1964 he had a short affair with the novelist Ann Quin, who was nearly forty years his junior (he had previously had an affair with his secretary Myfanwy Thomas, daughter of poet Edward Thomas). This all put great strain on his marriage and, in 1968, Christine and he were divorced after years of separation. In 1974 he began working on a script for a film treatment of ""Tarka the Otter"", but it was not regarded as suitable to film, being 400,000 words long. Filming went on, unknown to him, and the film, narrated by Peter Ustinov, was released in"
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"semi-autobiographical 15-book series ""A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight"" (1951–1969). After the war, he read Richard Jefferies' book ""The Story of My Heart"". This inspired him to begin writing seriously. In 1921, he moved to Georgeham, Devon, initially living in Skirr Cottage there. He married Ida Loetitia Hibbert in 1925 - she was descended from the Hibbert family that founded its fortune in Jamaica on both her mother and father's side - they had six children. In 1927 Williamson published his most acclaimed book, ""Tarka the Otter""; it won him the Hawthornden Prize in 1928, and made him enough money to"
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"Rikki-Tikki-Tavi ""Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"" is a short story in the 1894 anthology ""The Jungle Book"" by Rudyard Kipling about the adventures of a valiant young mongoose. It has often been anthologized and has been published several times as a short book. The story follows the experiences of a mongoose named Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (after his chattering vocalizations) after he becomes the pet of a British family residing in India as protection against cobras. He becomes friendly with some of the other creatures inhabiting the garden, and is warned of the cobras Nag and Nagaina who are angered by the family's presence on their territory."