Michael Morpurgo - Alone on a Wide Wide Sea

Copyright Contents Cover Titlepage Copyright Dedication Part One: The Story of Arthur Hobhouse Arthur Hobhouse is a Happening Three Red Funnels and an Orchestra Kookaburras, Cockatoos and Kangaroos Cooper’s Station and Piggy Bacon and God’s Work Suffer Little Children Wes Snarkey’s Revenge Saints and Sinners Mrs Piggy to Ida “Only One Way Out” “Did We Have the Children Here for This?” “Just Watch Me” “For She’s a Jolly Good Fellow” Wide as the Ocean “Couple of Raggedy Little Scarecrows” Henry’s Horrible Hat Hole I Must Go Down to the Sea Scrambled Eggs and Baked Beans “You’re my Boys, Aren’t You?” Freddie Dodds One January Night An Orphan Just the Same Things Fall Apart The Centre Will Not Hold Oh Lucky Man! Kitty Four Part Two: The Voyage of the Kitty Four What Goes Around, Comes Around Two Send-offs, and an Albatross Jelly Blobbers and Red Hot Chili Peppers And Now the Storm Blast Came Just Staying Alive “Hey Ho Little Fish Don’t Cry, Don’t Cry” Around the Horn, and with Dolphins Too! Dr Marc Topolski “One Small Step for Man” Alone on a Wide Wide Sea “London Bridge is Falling Down” Now you’ve read the book Afterword Acknowledgements Keep Reading About the Author Also by the Author About the Publisher

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Text copyright © Michael Morpurgo 2006.

Photographs © AKG Images, Corbis, Getty and Topfoto Maps and yacht diagrams © Tim Stevens 2006

Cover photographs ©: by kind permission of the author (boy); Ralph A. Clevenger/Corbis (porthole); Patrick Robert/Sygma/Corbis (river texture); Kevin Schafe/Getty Images (albatross); Altrendo Images/Getty Images (splash); The Mariners’ Museum/Corbis (ship); William Vandivert/Getty Images (waves).

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Source ISBN: 9780007230587

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To Lula Léa and Clare, who helped make this book with me.

Cover

Titlepage

Copyright

Dedication To Lula Léa and Clare, who helped make this book with me.

Part One: The Story of Arthur Hobhouse

Arthur Hobhouse is a Happening

Three Red Funnels and an Orchestra

Kookaburras, Cockatoos and Kangaroos

Cooper’s Station and Piggy Bacon and God’s Work

Suffer Little Children

Wes Snarkey’s Revenge

Saints and Sinners

Mrs Piggy to Ida

“Only One Way Out”

“Did We Have the Children Here for This?”

“Just Watch Me”

“For She’s a Jolly Good Fellow”

Wide as the Ocean

“Couple of Raggedy Little Scarecrows”

Henry’s Horrible Hat Hole

I Must Go Down to the Sea

Scrambled Eggs and Baked Beans

“You’re my Boys, Aren’t You?”

Freddie Dodds

One January Night

An Orphan Just the Same

Things Fall Apart

The Centre Will Not Hold

Oh Lucky Man!

Kitty Four

Part Two: The Voyage of the Kitty Four

What Goes Around, Comes Around

Two Send-offs, and an Albatross

Jelly Blobbers and Red Hot Chili Peppers

And Now the Storm Blast Came

Just Staying Alive

“Hey Ho Little Fish Don’t Cry, Don’t Cry”

Around the Horn, and with Dolphins Too!

Dr Marc Topolski

“One Small Step for Man”

Alone on a Wide Wide Sea

“London Bridge is Falling Down”

Now you’ve read the book

Afterword

Acknowledgements

Keep Reading

About the Author

Also by the Author

About the Publisher