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             TOP    KIDNAPPED                   BLACK BEAUTY               A JOURNEY TO


                                                                           THE CENTRE OF
                                                Black Beauty starts out as
                    David Balfour, a young
                    man in eighteenth-century
                                                a happy young horse, but
                                                                           THE EARTH
                    Scotland, expects to
                                                times. He meets both good
                    live quietly with his only
                                                                           journey, the three men
                                                and cruel people and
                    surviving family, an uncle.   he later experiences difficult   During their fantastic
                                                                           in Verne’s classic often
                    David soon realises that    manages to keep his gentle   have to use their skills of
                    the old man seems to be     nature in spite of many    invention to take them
                    keeping secrets from him.   hardships.                 through various situations
                    David starts to fear for his                           until they are safe back on
                    very life. This is only the                            the surface. It is a story of
                    beginning of his adventures,                           persistence and of man’s
                    however. He will have to                               battle both against nature
                    endure imprisonment on a                               and against his own fears.
                    ship, and a storm at sea...


















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