Into a Strange Lost World
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Author | Richard Hough |
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Original title | The Perilous Descent |
Illustrator | Tony Weare |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Publisher | The Bodley Head (UK) Thomas Y. Crowell (US) |
Publication date | 1952 |
Media type | |
Pages | 179 |
Into a Strange Lost World is a novel for children written by Richard Hough but published under the pen name Bruce Carter, which Hough used for all his books aimed at children. It was first published by The Bodley Head in 1952. It has also been published under the titles The Perilous Descent and The Perilous Descent into a Strange Lost World. It tells the story of two English airmen shot down off the Dutch coast during the Second World War. They are washed up on a sandbar where they discover an entrance to an underground world.
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- British children's novels
- Novels set during World War II
- The Bodley Head books
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