Salamandastron

by Brian Jacques

Book Overview

New York Times bestselling author Brian Jacques gives us another tale of Redwall, filled with "The Knights of the Round Table with paws" ( The Sunday Times) along with their friends and enemies. Urthstripe the Strong, a wise old badger, leads the animals of the great fortress of Salamandastron and Redwall Abbey against the weasel Ferahgo the Assassin and his corps of vermin.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0441000312
• ISBN13: 9780441000319
• Release Date: April 1994
• Publisher: Ace Books
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 4.2" x 6.6"
• Age Range: 10 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 5 and higher

Customer Reviews

We Have a Winner!

Ferahgo the Assassin, the cold hearted, blue-eyed Weasel makes an attack on Salamandastron in order to come accross the badger treasure he has heard of. Meanwhile two of his horde members escaped the ranks and find themselves at Redwall Abby. One night they steal away from the Abbey with the sword of Martin the Warrior. The next morning Samkim adn Arula set after them to retrieve the sword. While they were gone, the deadly Ditcheye Fever spreads over the Abbey. So Thrugg and baby Dumble set out to find the flowers of Icetor, the only thing known to cure it. This book is packed with excitement, tragedy, laughs, and is written in the most creative way If you have a good imagination you will love this book, if you don't have an imagination it will give you one.

Whew, a real epic that involves intellegent animals!

This is the very first book I have ever read about the great adventures of the gallant Redwall critters. In fact, it was quite a sudden discovery in a local college bookstore and now a whole new world dramatically opens up to a diehard fan of anthropomorphic animals like myself ever since the good old days of Pogo and Wind in the Willows. Here this tale takes place about two badger brothers, one an albino and the other one a lord of the seaside Salamanderstron mountain taking revenge upon a blue-eyed weasel and his bloodthirsty gang for killing their parents when they were both helpless little newborns. And the humble inhabitants of the Redwall Abbey are suddenly drawn into the bold new epic that involves alot of warmaking, scheme-hatching, journeying into the perilous unknown, fighting an unexpected epidemic and a sea monster, and such courageous exploits that will send a shiver running down your backbone every time you come across those parts. And an inexperienced young squirrel and his mole buddy as well as a plucky young badger girl and her shrew allies very quickly gets caught in the skin-chilling whirlwind as the great badger fiercelly strikes out at his old enemies from the past. And I must warn you, you WILL get caught as well!

Salamandastron

Salamandastron is the story of a fever spreading through Redwall Abbey. Two Redwallers, Thrugg and Dumble, must go north to the mountains to find the flowers of Icetor to make the medicine to stop it. At the mountain fortess of Salamandastron the badger lord, Uthstripe the strong, and his warrior rabbits called the Long Patrol fight off the villianous weasel, Ferhago the Assassin, and his evil horde. Meanwhile, Samkin and Arula of Redwall look for the sword of Martin the Warrior as Mara and Pikkle try to make it back to Salamandastron and the four strangely join. I liked this book because it makes me not want to stop reading and anxious for the next book in the series. Something exciting happened on every page. Salamandastron would be the perfect book for someone who likes action or adventure books. It would also be great for someone who has a good imagination. If you like this book you would like all the other books in the Redwall series.

What can I say?

There isn't anything that can be said about this book that hasn't already been said. It's touching. Splendid. Stunning. Exhilarating. Beautiful. Ethereal. Lifelike. Engaging. Riveting. Suspenseful. Swashbuckling. Lovely. Brawny. A good yarn...You see what I mean? There simply isn't anything left to say. I cried over this book - and I *never* cry at books. Or movies. Simply is not an option.But I did.

Burr Aye, Et be gudder than turnip n' tater n' beetroot pie!

Yet another accomplishment for the great Brian Jacques! This was indeed, another thrilling epic tale of the inhabatents of both Redwall and the great badger mountain. The villans were really, in a lack of words at the present, "Hateable." I started reading the Redwall series at age 8, and each book gets "absoballylutely" better each time I read them! Three years of reading and I realize that each new book that comes out becomes the highlight of my year. In all my reading, Brian Jacques has slowly become my favorite author! In any case this book is a must-read for every fantasy reader, as it captured my heart, I'm sure it will do the same to yours.