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The White Mountains (The Tripods #1)

  • Sam Youd

4.55

11 ratings

Young Will Parker and his companions make a perilous journey toward an outpost of freedom where they hope to escape from the ruling Tripods, who capture mature human beings and make them docile, obedient servants.


This is the first book of the original Tripods trilogy written under the name John Christopher. These young adult science fiction stories are set on Earth ruled by the alien Tripods. A prequel detailing the conquest was added 20 years later.

John Christopher is a pseudonym of Sam Youd.

The series: 0.5 (Prequel) When the Tripods Came (1988)

  1. The White Mountains (1967)
  2. The City of Gold and Lead (1967)
  3. The Pool of Fire (1968)

Genres

  • young adult
  • Extraterrestrial beings
  • Freedom
  • aliens
  • teenagers
  • Fiction
  • Science fiction
  • Children's stories
  • Dystopias
  • Juvenile fiction
  • Science fiction.
  • Children's fiction
  • Horror stories
  • England, fiction
  • France, fiction
  • Machinery
  • Machines
  • Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
  • Dystopies
  • Extraterrestres
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About the author

  • Sam Youd

    16 April 1922 - 3 February 2012

    4.22

    45 ratings · 102 works

Editions

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    L'Ecole des loisirs

    August 1, 1998

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    Tandem Library

    October 1999

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    Penguin

    Aug 03, 2017

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    Collier Books, Collier

    1974

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Aladdin

May 13, 2014

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    G K Hall & Co

    Sep 01, 2000

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    Trumpet Club special ed.

    Trumpet Club

    1990

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    Puffin / Penguin Books

    Aug 22, 1967

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    Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing

    2014

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    Random House Children's Books

    2013

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    Collier Books

    1967

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    Langensch.-Hachette, M

    December 1, 1999

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    15th edition

    MacMillan Publishing Company

    September 1970

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    2nd Collier Books ed.

    Collier Books

    1988

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    Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

    2003

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    Hamilton, H Hamilton

    1973

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    Kestrel, Viking Children's Books

    1984

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    Macmillan

    1967

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    Rev. cover ed.

    Aladdin Paperbacks

    1999

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    Beaver Books

    1976

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    Hutchinson, Collier

    1974

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    Simon Pulse

    2003

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    Bt Bound

    October 1999

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    Salvat Alfaguara

    1987

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    Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media

    April 2003

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    Tandem Library

    January 1967

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    Simon Pulse

    2010

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    Perfection Learning

    May 13, 2014

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    Hutchinson

    1974

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    Perfection Learning Prebound

    September 1981

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    Emme Edizioni

    1967

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    Largeprint edition

    MacMillan Publishing Company

    December 1990

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    MacMillan Publishing Company

    September 1970

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    Macmillan Publishing Company

    1970

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    Hamilton

    1967

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    Puffin

    1984

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    Longman

    1996

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    H. Hamilton

    1967

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    Chu ban

    Ying wen han sheng chu ban yu xian gong si

    1989