Uncle does not often go on holiday as very few hotels provide beds big enough for elephants. At Sunset Beach he hopes for a real rest and change, but almost at once fifty camels, led by the courteous Claudius, arrive with news of trouble at his great castle of Homeward. From this moment his attempts to have a holiday are interrupted by one unexpected happening after another. Uncle and his faithful followers rescue holiday-makers from the sinister Wheel House, use paraballoons at the Fun Fair, and face a fearful monster at ...
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Uncle does not often go on holiday as very few hotels provide beds big enough for elephants. At Sunset Beach he hopes for a real rest and change, but almost at once fifty camels, led by the courteous Claudius, arrive with news of trouble at his great castle of Homeward. From this moment his attempts to have a holiday are interrupted by one unexpected happening after another. Uncle and his faithful followers rescue holiday-makers from the sinister Wheel House, use paraballoons at the Fun Fair, and face a fearful monster at Water-Step Hill. There's the noisy braying affair of Idleass and Hot Donk; Fishy William at Comfort Cove; breakfast with the miraculous Singing Flower; high tea with the Glenmore Giraffes. A succession of fantastic adventures lead to the awesome moment when Uncle is chained and helpless at the mercy of the Badfort Crowd in Beaver Hateman's Chamber of Horrors. Can Uncle possibly escape this time?
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Fair in a Good dust jacket; Hardcover; Withdrawn library copy with the standard library markings; Dust jacket is moderately shelfworn and edgeworn with scuffing around the edges and a small watermark to the base of the spine area of jacket, but is overall good and intact with no tears, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Boards are discolored around the edges with "bumped" edge-corners; Yellowing to the textblock edges; Library stamps and foxing to endpapers; Text pages clean & unmarked; Good binding with straight spine; Fair, but readable condition; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium Format (8.5"-9.75" tall); 1.1 lbs; White dust jacket with drawing of a camel, and title in red and black lettering; 1969, Jonathan Cape Ltd; 192 pages; "Uncle and Claudius the Camel, " by J. P. Martin.
