The Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 2: 700 Headwords: A Stranger at Green Knowe (Oxford Bookworms ELT)

Boston, Lucy M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0194229874 ISBN 13: 9780194229876

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2000

When Ping sees Hanno in the zoo, he is excited, but also unhappy. Hanno is a magnificent African gorilla, big and black and much stronger than a man. But how can this wonderful wild animal live in a cage, behind bars and locked doors? Then Hanno escapes from the zoo. And a few days later his footprints are seen near Green Knowe, the old house deep in the English countryside where Ping is spending his holiday . . .

Review:

"Superb and thrilling."--"New York Herald Tribune Book Review"
"Superb and thrilling."--New York Herald Tribune Book Review

About the Author:

LUCY MARIA BOSTON (1892-1990) purchased a ramshackle manor house near Cambridge, England, in 1935, which over a period of two years she lovingly restored. It is this house that inspired her, at the age of sixty-two, to take pen in hand and create the beloved Green Knowe series.