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High Wind in Jamaica

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Based on 836 Ratings and 247 Reviews

Book Description
A High Wind in Jamaica is not so much a book as a curious object, like a piece of driftwood torqued into an alarming shape from years at sea. And like driftwood, it seems not to have been made, exactly, but simply to have come into being, so perfectly is its form married to its content. The five Bas-Thornton children must leave their parents in Jamaica after a terrible hurricane blows down their f... More
Book Information
PublisherSignet Book
BindingMass Market Paperback (57 editions)
Reading LevelUncategorized
# of PagesN/A
ISBN-100451504224
ISBN-13978-0451504227
Publication Date06/01/1968
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About Richard Hughes (Author) : Richard Hughes is a published author, editor, and an illustrator of children's books. Some of the published credits of Richard Hughes include High Wind in Jamaica.
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