A Tale of Time City - where history is really made
Jones, Diana Wynne: illus. by Wyatt, David
Language: English
Published by Collins London, 2000
- First Edition
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: Helen Boomsma of babyboomerbooks, Cape Douglas, SA, AustraliaHelen Boomsma of babyboomerbooks
AbeBooks seller since September 26, 2002
Condition: Used - Very good
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paperback in very good condition, not ex-library. There are no names, clean cream pages, tight binding with uncreased spine and clean stiff card covers, slight dogears on the back. When Vivian is evacuated from London is 1939, instead of arriving in the British countryside she turns up in Time City, a place that exists outside time and space. Another excellent inventive and exciting story from Diana Wynne Jones. Please ignore abe's shipping estimate, as I will charge shipping at cost - Australia Post rates.
Seller Inventory # JON035
- Title
- A Tale of Time City - where history is really made
- Author
- Jones, Diana Wynne: illus. by Wyatt, David
- Publisher
- Collins London
- Publication year
- 2000
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0006755208
- ISBN 13
- 9780006755203
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Seller catalogs
- children's adventure stories
When Vivian is evacuated from London in 1939, she expects to be staying in the countryside. Instead, she is whisked away to Time City – a place that exists outside time and space.
It is a strange and remarkable place, where technology rules – yet important events of both past and future are marked by the appearance of mysterious Time Ghosts.
Here, a Time Patrol works to preserve historical events – but unknown rogue time-travellers are plotting to take control and are stealing the wards that protect the city. If they succeed, Time City and History as we know it will both be destroyed.
Jonathan and Sam are convinced that Vivian can help to save their home – for, astonishingly, she appears as a Time Ghost herself in a forgotten part of the city. But how can she possibly know what to do, when the important event hasn’t even happened yet?!
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About the Author
DIANA WYNNE JONES was born in August 1934 in London, where she had a chaotic and unsettled childhood against the background of World War II. The family moved around a lot, finally settling in rural Essex. As children, Diana and her two sisters were deprived of a good, steady supply of books by a father, ‘who could beat Scrooge in a meanness contest’. So, armed with a vivid imagination and an insatiable quest for good books to read, she decided that she would have to write them herself.
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Helen Boomsma of babyboomerbooks
Cape Douglas, SA, Australia
AbeBooks seller since September 26, 2002
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