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3 unusual facts about Clive King


Clive King

Set in the eastern Mediterranean world of the 15th century BC, the story follows the adventures of the three sons of a Phoenician master builder through three loosely linked stories in which they travel to Egypt (Sinai), to the court of King Minos (Crete) and north to Ugarit.

Clive King's best-known novel is Stig of the Dump (1963), illustrated by Edward Ardizzone, which follows the adventures of a boy who discovers a Stone-Age cave-dweller living at the bottom of a disused chalk pit (which has been used as an unofficial rubbish dump) in Kent.

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The children's novel The Sound of Propellors by Clive King follows the adventure of an Indian schoolboy who stows away on a fictional test flight from England to India, which is sabotaged by a German spy.



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