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 |
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| Illustrator | Louden, Claire |
| Illustrator | Louden, George, 1920-1997 |
| LoC No. | 51012840 |
| Title | The defender |
| Original Publication | New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1951. |
| 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 | Oct 14, 2025 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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