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The Black Tor, by George Manville Fenn
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Title: The Black Tor A Tale of the Reign of James the First
Author: George Manville Fenn
Illustrator: W. S. Stacey
Release Date: May 4, 2007 [EBook #21298]
Language: English
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The Black Tor, by George Manville Fenn, A Tale of the Reign of James the First.
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As always with this author there is plenty of action in this book. Two teenage boys of about the same age come from families which have been in intense rivalry for centuries. Each of them lives in a castle set among the wild and desolate hills of Derbyshire, an almost mountainous area in the Midlands of England, known generally as the Peak District.
The boys know each other but as enemies. Yet events occur which draw them together as allies, but they dare not call themselves friends. A roguish band of ex-soldiers have arrived in the district, and set up camp out on the moors, from whence they descend to steal from, rob and loot the houses of the poorer folk.
The boys privately form an alliance using the men working on their fathers' land as a private army, to attack and rid the lan