The defender by Nicholas Kalashnikoff

"The Defender" by Nicholas Kalashnikoff is a children's novel published in 1951. Deep in the Siberian mountains, an ostracized shepherd named Turgen befriends a herd of wild rams, causing villagers to brand him a sorcerer. When hunting season arrives and hunters threaten the rams' lives, Turgen must choose between his safety and protecting the animals he has grown to love. A widowed mother and her children become his unlikely allies in this tale of compassion and courage. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Kalashnikoff, Nicholas, 1888-1961
Illustrator Louden, Claire
Illustrator Louden, George, 1920-1997
LoC No. 51012840
Title The defender
Original Publication New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1951.
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Defender_(Kalashnikoff_novel)
Credits Tim Lindell, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
Language English
LoC Class PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres
Subject Shepherds -- Juvenile fiction
Subject Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
Subject Rams -- Juvenile fiction
Subject Endangered species -- Juvenile fiction
Subject Even (Asian people) -- Juvenile fiction
Subject Yakut (Turkic people) -- Juvenile fiction
Subject Siberia (Russia) -- Juvenile fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 77051
Release Date
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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