![]() ![]() While stopping at an Arabian port, the Drake takes on a very large black stallion that is wild and dangerous. The Drake is bound for England, from where Alec will travel to his home in New York City. ![]() This guide refers to the 2002 Random House paperback edition.Īlec Ramsay boards a ship called the Drake in Bombay, India, after spending the summer with his uncle. Nearing the end of his life, Farley included his son, Stephen, as co-author of his last Black Stallion sequel. Though Farley describes danger, physical injury, and the loss of human life, the narrative does not contain graphic material and is suitable for middle-grade readers.įarley wrote more than 20 Black Stallion and directly derivative titles, greatly expanding the Black’s backstory as well as the stories of his offspring. He began writing the book while still in high school and finished it while in college several years before it was published. ![]() The author was raised around horses and kept them throughout his life. Traditionally, the novel has been regarded as a middle-grade novel. ![]()
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