The Island Stallion's Fury
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THE BLACK STALLION SERIES BY WALTER FARLEY
THE BLACK STALLION
THE BLACK STALLION RETURNS
SON OF THE BLACK STALLION
THE ISLAND STALLION
THE BLACK STALLION AND SATAN
THE BLACK STALLION’S BLOOD BAY COLT
THE ISLAND STALLION’S FURY
THE BLACK STALLION’S FILLY
THE BLACK STALLION REVOLTS
THE BLACK STALLION’S SULKY COLT
THE ISLAND STALLION RACES
THE BLACK STALLION’S COURAGE
THE BLACK STALLION MYSTERY
THE HORSE-TAMER
THE BLACK STALLION AND FLAME
MAN O’ WAR
THE BLACK STALLION CHALLENGED!
THE BLACK STALLION’S GHOST
THE BLACK STALLION AND THE GIRL
THE BLACK STALLION LEGEND
THE YOUNG BLACK STALLION (with Steven Farley)
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Copyright © 1951 by Walter Farley
Copyright renewed 1979 by Walter Farley
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Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 51-11818
eISBN: 978-0-307-80487-7
Reprinted by arrangement with Random House Books for Young Readers
v3.1
For a most wonderful person and mother,
Mary E. Lutz
CONTENTS
Cover
Other Books by This Author
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
1. Blue Valley
2. Pitch’s Map
3. The Bay Mare
4. Orphaned Foal
5. Red Fury
6. Sea Entrance
7. Forced Journey
8. The Giant
9. Black World
10. Early Training
11. Grave Decision
12. Ambush!
13. Snake Whip
14. Escape
15. Red Sentinel
16. Challenged!
17. The Fight
18. The Reckoning
19. Conclusion
About the Author
BLUE VALLEY
1
Azul Island broke the turquoise blue waters with a startling suddenness. One saw it not as an island but as a massive, egg-shaped boulder dropped into the sea. The islands of the Caribbean Sea are tropical and luxurious in their soft green vegetation and colorful flowers. There was nothing soft or green or colorful about Azul Island.
Its precipitous walls rose naked from the sea, rising a thousand or more feet in the sky until they rounded off to form the dome-shaped top of Azul Island. It was barren and foreboding, with the sea beating white against its barrier walls, seeking entrance and finding none.
Only on large-scale navigation maps of the far eastern area of the Caribbean Sea could the island be found. It ran north and south, nine miles long. But no ships ever passed it unless driven far off their course. Neither did any air lane come within five hundred miles of it.
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