- Pigeons, Fiction, Homing pigeons, Juvenile literature
The story of the training of a carrier pigeon and its service during the First World War, revealing the bird's courageous and spirited adventures over the housetops of an Indian village, in the Himalayan Mountains, and on the French battlefield.
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Earnest, grave, resolved and classical in form.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- classical in formformally daring
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- Dhan Gopal Mukerji
- First published
- 1927
- Pages
- 191
- Publisher
- Dent, Dutton Juvenile, Dutton
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- English, Chinese
- ISBN
- 9780440840176
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